MOCKING-BIRD. 945 



poverty to oblivion, as the other does 

 beneath the blindness of nature to death. 

 Bird and Man ! are ye not alike in your 

 glory, as ye are in your fate? 



In the cage, the Mocking-bird should 

 be regularly supplied with water once a 

 day, and if the weather be very warm, 

 twice. In the latter instance, he sjiould 

 be kept in a situation where he will have 

 plenty of air; but not in one where the 

 hot rays of the sun would fall for several 

 hours together upon his cage, as this 

 would at once kill him in the summer 

 time, though in the winter it would tend 

 to the advancement of his health. In the 

 moulting season, however, this treatment 

 must be changed; the bird must be taken 

 in the house and kept warm, quiet and 

 free from draughts of air, which at that 

 critical period are always very injurious. 

 This fatal time for birds occurs with this 

 species about the commencement of Au- 

 gust, and continues until the beginming of 

 November. 

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