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Show ' Mljrrallnn of Ilia lllnla. Our happiness, If wo nro bird loven Indeed, waits not upon novelties on! rarities All such oxcepllonal bits of prlrato rood fortuno lot tho fates send or withhold as they will. Tho grand riioctaclo lts;lf will not full us. l.veu now, through nil the northern country, tho (recession is getting under wav, Tor tho next three months it will bo lasliig millions upon millions, warblers, war-blers, sparrows, thrushes, vlroes, black birds, I') catchers, w reus, kinglets, wood peckers, swallows, humming birds, bawls, with sandpipers, jlovi rs, ducks nnd goose, gulls, nnd who knowi bow many more? Night and day, week days nnd Sundays, Sun-days, they will bo II) lug, now singly or in Utile groups, and flitting from ono wood or pasture to another; now In Kirat companies nnd w !th 1 retracted nil day or nil night flights. ho could ask a Utter stimulus for his Imagination than the annus! southing of this mighty bostr Each member of It knows his own tlmn and lib) own courso On anchn diy tho snlpo will bo in such n meadow and the golden plover In iraclinUcIJ. Horns no doubt will loso their wu). Numbers uncounted will perish by storm and lloodi numbers inoro, iilasl by human agency. As 1 writo, with tho sad noto of 11 bluebird In in) car, 1 can aeo tho aenbetthos nnd marshes linod with guns. Hat tho uriny will push an, they will como to their desired haven, for there is a spirit in birds also, 'nnl tho Inspiration f tbo Almighty glveth them understandlns." Bradford Tarry In Atlantic. |
