26 PLEASURES OF ORNITHOLOGY. 



Hence hie YE where the broad La Plata rolls 

 His giant tide ; or to the fertile banks 

 Of his huge tributaries — Paraguay, 

 Parana, where on Nature's ample board 

 Plenty pours rich oblations ; and the birds. 

 Of wood, of meadow, and of mountain, lords, 

 Riot in all the luxuries of song. 

 There listen to that sweet XanthorearisQ) strain. 

 Who, when in Northern climes beyond the reign 

 Of Cancer, finds abode, the accustomed song, 

 By time, not season, prompted, still he sings. 

 Greeting the winter with his warbling lay. 



Many the Oriolinas (•) melodies ; 

 But chief the Niger ^ (') Nidipenduline, C^) 

 Your ear demand. Well too observe their domes 

 Wrought with consummate skill, and nicely attached. 

 Yet firmly, to some slight depending spray ; 

 Buoyant they wave to every breezp, secure 

 From wily serpent and the Simia tribe. 



(0 Fringilla xanthorea. This bird is described by Prince 

 Charles Buonaparte, in the Journal of the Academy of Natu- 

 ral Sciences of Philadelphia, vol. iv., part 2. See also Orni- 

 THOLOGiA, page 253. — (*) OriolinaSf birds of the Oriole 

 TRIBE. — (^) Oriolus niger, or Black Oriole. — (*) Oriolus 

 nidipendulus, or Hangnest Oriole. 



