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would find if they went to British America, where the 

 breezes would descend from the regions of snow and 

 ice beyond the Arctic Circle. 



It will add a little spice of detail if we take a 

 concrete case. There is the handsome and lyrical 

 white-crowned sparrow; in my native State, Ohio, 

 this bird is only a migrant, passing for the summer 

 far up into Canada to court his mate and rear his 

 family. Now remember that Col- 

 orado is in the same latitude as 

 Ohio ; but the Buckeye State, 

 famous as it is for furnishing 

 presidents, has no lofty eleva- 

 tions, and therefore no 

 white-crowns as summer 

 residents. However, 

 Colorado may claim 

 this distinction, as well 

 as that of producing 

 gold and silver, and 

 furnishing some of the 

 sublimest scenery on 

 the earth ; for on 

 the side of Pike's 

 Peak, in a green, 

 well-watered valley 

 just below timber-line, 



Crowned 

 Sparrows 



