AS EVENING DARKENS. 



''HERE are many birds which are 

 broad awake and busy from the first 

 gleam of daylight until night comes down. 

 The flycatcher is at her favourite post early and 

 late ; from dawn to dark the swallows fly ; the brilliant 

 dress of the kingfisher gleams through the twilight 

 like a touch of fire. 



Others, like the woodpecker, retire before sundown. 

 But there are many creatures who stir abroad only 

 under the hush of night who leave their haunts and 

 come out into the world when the afterglow still 



