A BOUQUET OF SONG BIRDS 
INE of the most famous resorts of 
| land-birds in the Eastern States is 
} in the town of Englewood, N. J. ; 
a=" to be precise, West Englewood, a 
small farming district at some distance from 
Englewood itself. But let no one, meditating a 
trip to this avian shrine, be misled, as I nearly 
was, by an unscrupulous ticket-agent of the New 
Jersey Northern Railroad, who tried to persuade 
me that all of Englewood worth mentioning 
was on /zs road—a statement fully two miles 
wide of the truth, for West Englewood is on 
the West Shore road. The circumstance that 
makes this an attractive spot to the feathered 
tribe is its variety of topography, and, con- 
sequently, of vegetable and animal life; for, 
within a small area, are comprised upland and 
swamp, woods, shrubbery, and open land— 
quite an epitome of nature—with such diversity 
of growth as to allure the varied tastes of a wide 
range of species. In contrast with the Ramble 
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