362 RURAL BIRD LIFE. 



of the subject they embrace, mayest thou enjoy some of 

 thy pleasantest hours in following it ; for be they spent 

 in the smiling fields, among beetling crags, in the dense 

 and impenetrable forest, on the shores of the mighty 

 deep, in the fastnesses of the trembling morass, or on 

 the barren moor and arid plain, thou wilt not fail to 

 find objects of thy quest exhibiting plumage, form, and 

 habits, ever changing and diversified, 



