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SKETCHES OF BIRD LIFE. 



bad voice ;" l but now that this screen is gone, we 

 can see the author of the noise in all the glory of 

 his bright plumage. 



Who has not stopped at the end of a green 



"ride" to admire the dead Jay, strung up, like a 

 thief, amidst Hawks, Cats, and Stoats ? His rosy- 

 brown back, white tail-coverts, and black-and-white 

 wings, with their bright blue coverts, render him one 

 of the handsomest of our woodland birds. 



1 Merchant of Venice, act v., sc. i. 



