Flycatcher, Great-Crested 



Odder things than these he uses, — 

 Things for something else than comfort; 

 Sometimes to the general tangle 

 He will add a tail of chipmunk, 

 Sometimes fish scales, iridescent, 

 Mingle in the mystic chaos. 

 But his chiefly favored fetish 

 Is a piece of cast-off snake skin. 



BoLLES. Chocorua's Tenants.^^ 



FLYCATCHER, OLIVE-SIDED 



The short necks of the flycatchers make their heads 

 appear large for their bodies, a pecuHarity slightly em- 

 phasized in this member of the family A 



sharp, loud whistle, when-o-when-o-when-o, rings out from 

 the throat of this olive-sided tyrant, warning all intruders 

 off the premises; but however harshly he may treat the 

 rest of the feathered world, he has only gentle devotion 

 to offer his brooding mate. 



Neltje Blanch an. Bird Neighbors.^ 



GEESE, WILD 



We cannot well afford not to see the geese go over a 

 single spring, and so commence our year regularly. 



Thoreau. Spring. -^^ 



