A Bouquet of Song Birds 
presence of many other familiar species. A 
single walk in this region in the flood-tide of 
migration will sometimes reveal between fifty 
and sixty varieties. 
But these woods are not simply an ornitho- 
logical retreat. ‘They are, perhaps, not less at- 
tractive to anyone who delights 
‘To feed on flowers and weeds of glorious feature,” 
of which Nature has here formed so rich an 
arabesque. What particularly strikes the ob- 
server is the luxuriance, as well as the variety, 
of plant-life in this small area. Such glorious 
masses of the commoner sorts one seldom sees : 
enormous buttercups, 
‘Like nightes starres, thick powdred everywhere ;”’ 
giant dandelions, almost dazzling by their 
numbers and intensity of hue; large tracts 
where one might suppose that the countless 
flakes uf a belated snow-storm had struck root 
into the earth and melted their frozen forms 
into anemones; and such violets! mammoth 
clusters of rare and melting blue, exhaling an 
ineffably soft atmosphere, a thousand times more 
subtle than a blush, and lingering in the eye 
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