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HISTORY OF CALIFORNIA. 



mind a deep feeling of the beauties of the season, a 

 sense of the bounty and providence of the Supreme 

 Being, which is cheaply purchased by the tedium of 

 nine months winter. The most verdant lawns and 

 cultivated glades of Europe, the most beautiful pro 

 ductions of art, fail in producing that exhilaration 

 and joyous buoyancy of mind which we have expe 

 rienced in treading the wilds of Arctic America, when 

 their snowy covering has just been replaced by an 

 infant but vigorous vegetation.' " 



THE CAT BIRD. 



The Cat Bird (Mimus Felivox) is found in various 

 parts of California. This quaint and familiar song 

 ster passes the winter in the southern extremities of 

 the United States, and along the coast of Mexico, 

 from whence, as early as February, they arrive in 



