APPENDIX. 189 



The Author's Power of Memory. — Contin. 



Dec. 15, 1889. 



" I have had three wonderful horses, all small, — Old 

 Pink, Old Dresser Mare, and Lightfoot. I have written 

 them up. Have a photograph of Dresser and Lightfoot ; 

 and can from memory dictate a good picture of old Pink. 

 Dear me ! I have omitted 'Flying Jennie,' the ' most grand- 

 est ' of all, of whom you know little. I have her also pho- 

 tographed in my eye, and shall have while I dwell ' here 

 below.' These four animals were not surpassed for rare 

 qualities by any that I have known of. Each was a won- 

 der. Old Dresser was fifteen years old before she was 

 harnessed. You remember her at forty. Think of that ! " 



Red-eyed Vireo. (See p. 78.) 



"Their song consists of a few notes, which are warbled again and 

 again with little intermission or variety (and which are sometimes inter- 

 rupted now and then by a low whistle). This music would be monoto- 

 nous were it not for its wonderful cheerfulness, energy, and animation, in 

 these qualities resembling the Robin's song. The ' Red-eyes ' have also a 

 chip, a chatter like a miniature of the Oriole's scold (and to be heard in 

 the season of courtship), and a peculiarly characteristic querulous note, 

 which, like others, cannot be described accurately ; whence the advantage 



