NATURE STUDY. 



Ye lapwing and ye snipe, 



And tune their song like Nature's clerkes, 



O'er meadow, muir, and stripe. 



The time sa tranquil is and still, 

 That na where sail ye find, 

 Saife on ane high and barren hill, 

 Ane aire of peeping wind. 



All trees and simples great and small. 

 That balmy leife do beir 

 Nor thay were painted on a wall, 

 Na mair they moue or steir. 



Calme is the deepe and purpour se, 

 Yee smuther nor the sand. 

 The wals that woltring wont to be 

 Are stable like the laud. 



" Listen to the Mocking-Bird." 



(Title of Alice Hawthorne's Song). 



BY STEPHEN D. PARRISH. 



The Mocking Bird, which, in extent and variety of vo- 

 cal powers, stands unrivaled by the feathered songsters of 

 the world, is peculiar to the Occident ; inhabiting consid- 

 erable area of North and South America, having been 

 traced from New Kngland to southern Brazil.* They are, 

 however, much more numerous in our states south than 

 north of the Delaware. Generally migratory north of that 

 beautiful river, and resident, to a great extent, to the south 

 thereof. 



Some time ago I noticed a few lines in one of the New 

 England papers seemingly expressing surprise at the fact 

 that a Mocking-bird (one ! ) had been seen as far north as 

 Waterbury, Connecticut, and the lady writer concludes : 

 "I have known of the bird (mocker) nesting near New 

 Haven, but have not heard of its coming as far north as 

 this," i. e., Waterbury, and " I shall watch for its coming 



