Show What a a you and certainly this bird is every one's favorite in Who does not love to see in fall and gleaming in v-shaped or wavy lines across the depths of our azure long neck shot the legs trailing the wide wings beating Every child knows them and has heard their on the Have you ever seen a blue he-t on's It is several feet in and built of mostly long and placed in trees along the river's edge or on the bare rocks of Each of these willows is in the one at a across the lake by the mated the willow trailing like the slender feet The young in the nest's of Bird Island stay there and are fed by the till the are full Amusing are the weak-legged baby herons before they can walk or They sprawl over the nest and flop over the but one that was placed in the water soon discovered that it had feet and slowly swam Some of our party picked up several of the which were nearly twice the size of a hen's eggs and were much larger at one end than at They were blotched with A Bird of As long ago as the days of the excellence of whose reasoning was partly due to the fact that he was also a natural or nature the sage had noted with characteristic clearness that the heron larger birds than itself which injure as the for the eagle seizes upon and the for this creature attacks it during the and the which steals its This last specification is no doubt a mistake yet I would on that denounce the peerless reasoned as a nature One of our own party can testify to the dangerous nature of that and ing for he who unwarily picked up a young heron carried away the bleeding mark of the youngster's spear-like weapon it had cut his Striking in graceful in poise and doing no harm named by ancient writers among the oldest birds ol these birds lare clearly entitled to the fullest protection of the And as Moses they are birds of to the hungry as Stratton-Por-ter treat to the soul of a lover of as they wing their deliberate flight across the country from lake to Herons Are Not You had always supposed you that the slender which nest on the lake or in high trees were at nearly all people so call But while cranes are birds of size and the latter have partly naked heads covered with warty skin and while the great blue heron has an artistic crest and handsomely clothed the sand-hill some ot which are often seen here in is of slaty brownish and whitish with grayish throat and it inhabits unfenced prairies and builds in treeless herons are so nearly like those described by which nested freely about the little lake fed and drained by the Jordan that says picture of any of our blue herons busy with its great will serve as a likeness for them Through thickets grew masses of bulrushes and sweet among which frogs pursued sweet loving insects and the herons sued the And so it is today along our Jordan and Dead only that we have to add that and men with guns pursue the while the officers of the law fail to pursue these Butterflies The We were speaking in the previous chapter of the blue Closely related to them and to the hair-streaks are the which are easily distinguished from their the other two classes of gossamer by orange-red and brown with a coppery tinge and conspicuous black They are small sized and of some coppery shade red or orange and often glossed with Like the other gossamer they have many small spots and iines on the undersides of the brownish The ruddy copper is our finest it is found only in the Rocky above it is a lustrous red with black while the undersides are a shining is its scientific Similar to the but still brighter above and paler beneath and is the stai copper named after the brightest just as its cousin is named from the Latin word for The named from city of Virginia is dusky the female tawny with a few brown and both with tailed hind The commonest is the American which is the of barely one inch the forewings bright and black The The satyrs are butterflies of small obscurely colored in brown or at least the under sides of the wings usually bearing eye-like which are ringed with more outer circles They are 1 and forest-loving The Utah ringlet is the Jl of the North American expanding nearly ft It is with a rS ginal row of eye-like Spots one of them near the tip of the wing being blackS' showing through on the The ochre ringlet is of glossy yellow the under spots not It is 3 The Alpine is dark reA brown and it has spots with white 3 surrounded with both sides of the r Scudder's satyr and satyr are two ashy-brown white species with black with These W known to collectors by the M fie names and N. might be caM eyed Mk The Wood The wood nymphs are flies that average larger darker in color than the and are sometimes called meadow The upper brown and the les more beautifully and nth more prominent the upper wood nymph is wn with two spots on and expands two The dark eye-spots are ed by reddish is the fettle satyr is brown irk wood nymph is still and the eye spots sible on the wings of the four are named S. and S. |