CHAPTER V. 



BIRDS OF WOODLAND AND HEDGEROW. 



WmODS are frequently 

 ^ solitary and silent, 

 or restless with life and 

 ringing wdth song, accord- 

 ing to the character of the 

 trees growing in them. 



In Southern England, 

 where hazel - bushes, ash 

 stoles, and slender birches 

 grow in c 1 u m ps with 

 bramble - clad glades be- 

 tween, and occasional oak 

 and beech trees sending forth their giant arms to 

 shadow primrose or bluebell-decked banks, there 

 will the ring dove clatter his wings and coo softly 

 to his mate, the nightingale ravish the pale 

 moonhght ^^ith sweetest song, the inquisitive jay 

 chatter and the willow wren warble all day long, 

 to say nothing of a dozen other species. 



The deep shadows and solitude of pine forests 

 suit the habits of few birds, saving such as the 

 long-eared owl, and are generally painfully silent, 



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