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The Orioli7ia''spenduline{^) who dares 



To imitate. Of Magpie s{^) citadel, 



Coarse, yet effective — of the muddy walls 



Of Martins C) — the white, delicate, moss dome 



Of Conirost (*) — the Gold/inch {^) — who presum es 



His clumsy imitations to produce ? 



Who may the chinking Chaffinch's (^) e'er shape ; 



Or who a pattern of the nest shall bring 



Of warbling ThrushfC^) of every glade and grove 



A tenant ; who shall form the stuccoed walls ? 



Inimitable these, and myriads more, 



Which wonder oft beholds, and reason mute 



Concludes design and wisdom in them all. 



Thus, having caught of birds a rapid glance — 

 Their Songs, their Habits, Structure, and their Nests, 

 Of Pleasures contemplation here affords— 

 Now think YE that those Princes of the Air, 

 The warblers of the valley and the wood, 

 Only for Man created ; think YE they 

 Are HIS without conditions — for his sport — 

 His riot ^inhumanity '■^iho.t they 



(') Oriolus nidipendulus and some others of the Oriole tribe. — 

 (a) Corvuspica, — {})Hirundo urbica,—(^)Conirost, a bird with a 

 conic hi\\.—OFringilla carduelis.—(^)The Chaffinch, FriMg-i/Za 

 cxlebs, is strikingly distinguished by its notes " chink, chink," 

 which it often utters. — (7) Turdus musicusj or Song Thrush. 



For a more minute account of the Nests of Birds, see Omi- 

 thologiUf passim, but chiefly the Introduction, 



