16 PLEASURES OF ORNITHOLOGY. 



Who, buffeting the wave, on ocean sail, 

 Or, on the floods of Thames or Severn, glide. 

 Or more secluded waters, where they reign 

 Lords of the element, and sportive dive, 

 Or seek the finny tribe, aquatic worm. 

 The race A7iatidjC) too, whose snowy down. 

 Or plumage, proffers man serene repose. 

 Where no indulgent luxury abounds. 

 Will e*er attentive observation claim. 

 Nor less the active Rasors ; whether they 

 Before the grange or in the woodlands stalk 

 — A Phasianid ij") group of various hue, — 

 Obediently to many a chanticleer, 

 That wakes the morning with responding notes, 

 And bids stout labour from his homely couch 

 Rise e'er the sun gladdens the eastern hills. 

 The Tetrnonids, (^) too, prolific tribe. 

 Shall yield no mean excitement — *^ Giant Grouse^'\^) 

 The Partridge, {^) Ptarmigan^ (^) the Heath-cock, C') 

 QuaiL{*) 



C) Race anatid, birds of the Duck tribe, including the 

 Goose, Swan, &c. — (*) Phasianid group^ birds of the Phea- 

 sant TRIBE, inchiding not only Pheasants, bnt also the com- 

 mon Cock and Hen. — (3) Tetraonids, birds of tiie Partridge, 

 Grouse, and Tinamou tribe. — C^) Tetrao urogallus^:r-C) '^^- 

 traoperdix. — {^) Tetrao Iagopus.—(J) Tetrao t€trix.—(^) Tetrao 

 coturnix. 



