Lake George 
which one intuitively feels, without perhaps 
being able scientifically to explain. A man, 
blind from his birth, was once asked to give his 
idea of the sunrise. He replied that it seemed 
to him it must be like the sound of a trumpet. 
A bolder, more poetic, and in a sense accurate, 
comparison of sight and sound could hardly be 
imagined. Even those dry and literal people, 
who would scorn the analogy under other cir- 
cumstances, will hardly disapprove of this pa- 
thetic, yet masterly, attempt to define, in terms 
of his own experience, what one had never seen. 
And, although without the excuse of blindness 
for being fanciful, there always seems to me to 
be a sort of crimson quality in the dark rich 
tone of the downy woodpecker, different from 
the call-note of any other species, and match- 
ing the ornamental head-piece displayed by the 
male. 
The Wilson thrush, or veery, is one of the 
most abundant species in this region, and can be 
heard occasionally throughout the day, in all 
the woods, but becomes more melodious at dusk, 
and prolongs its song later into the evening 
than almost any other bird. The robin and 
the thrushes belong to the same family ; but the 
former is more plebeian and companionable, the 
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