A Book on Birds 



chasing each other merrily from Hmb to 

 limb and tree to tree in the deep woods 

 and found it delightful; but a pair of 

 wings (to my mind) must make mere sport 

 ideal. 



I find that many of the smaller species 

 are already going about in flocks. In 

 fact the fun they have could scarcely be 

 quite so general or so jolly except for this. 

 Some games no doubt must be played with 

 only one or two — on the wing as elsewhere; 

 but nature shows a preference, at least 

 just at this season among birds, for the 

 more generous sort. 



Companies of Chipping Sparrows, brown- 

 capped as ever and quite unchanged in 

 plumage either by rain or sunshine since 

 April, may be seen by almost every road- 

 side — each group numbering perhaps twenty- 

 five or more. 



They prove that a Quaker garb does 

 not always indicate a lack of sprightli- 

 ness of spirit by any means; nor an empty 

 nest, a broken heart. They are as lively 

 and sociable as crickets, despite their plain 



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