124 With the Birds and Poets 



an answer." The warbling and the yellow-breasted 

 vireos are also more or less common. The former's 

 song resembles the robin's, though it is more pure 

 and liquid in quality, and the latter is distinguish- 

 able by its larger size and bright yellow under 

 parts. 



With these few choice summer songsters to 

 delight the long sultry days, we almost forget the 

 myriads of birds lost to us back in the new spring- 

 time, for, after all, July has a summer charm all 

 its own: 



"A pleasing land of drowsy head it was, 



Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye; 

 And of gay castles in the clouds that pass, 

 Forever flushing round a summer sky." 



