PLEASURES OF ORNITHOLOGY. » 



Which soars with sweeping pennon, and proclaims 

 Himself of Andes lord.(^) But chief seek YE, 

 If pleasure and sweet sounds be your delight, 

 The tribes to song devoted, when the Spring 

 Walks forth in all his splendour, and his woods — 

 His fields, perfum'd by smiling Florals hand. 

 With strains resound, at once both wild and sweet. 

 Numerous and various too ! 



Go listen now 

 To many a Fringillid,{^) — the Linnet (^) sweet, 

 Or warbling Redpole ;(^) while the Goldfinch, (^) he 

 Whose plumage with the tropic warbler's vies, 

 Whose note — exultant cheerfulness itself, 

 Whose downy dome rivals a Trochihd's 

 In beauty, may be heard beneath the elm's 

 Pale umbrage. 



Lo ! the mimic melodist 

 The Black-cap(^), from some tangled sloe bush trills 

 His varying song ; now as some Merulid's-' 

 Now as Luscinian Sylviad's (^), aloud 



(») Vidiur gryphus, or Condor, the largest of the birds of 

 flight.— (^) Fringillid, a bird of the Finch tribe. — (3) Frin- 

 gilla linota. — {^) Fringilla cnnnabimi.—(^) Fringilla carduelis. — 

 (6) Si/lvia atricapitla. — (7) Sylvia I usciniu, or Nightingale. 



A 3 



