30 PLEASURES OF ORNITHOLOGY. 



The insidious worm, scooping a nest secure 

 From numerous enemies. 



The Trochilids, (') 

 Tenuirosires, (2) bright and on the wing 

 E'er humming shall awhile your care engross ; — 

 Their nests consummate neatness ; and their eggs 

 Tiny, rotund, and white without a stain ; 

 With delicacy mix*d, their plumage glows 

 In all the colours of the irid arch, 

 Combined in shadows of innumerous hues 

 Intense or faint, yet ever beautiful. 



Again : think YE the aberrant Orioline, (^) 

 Whom have Columbia's sons the Cowpen (^) nam*d — 

 For Man becomes a vagrant, nor provides 

 Or house or home, nor knows domestic bliss ; — 

 From nest to nest of other birds she roves 

 Her eggs depositing, nor ever cares 

 One moment for them or her callow sons? 



Thence, midst the Nectariniad (*) groups, go search 

 The spicy gardens of the gorgeous East — 

 In Hindoostan — beneath the tropic sun — 

 Or in those myriad isles that stud the seas, 



(») Trochilids, or birds of the Humming-bird tribe. — 

 (2) TenuirostreSf birds with Slender Bills. — (3) Oriolus pe- 

 coris, the Cowpen Oriole, Cowpen, or Cow-bunting. — 

 (*) Nectariniad groups, birds of the Honey-eating tribe. 



