IRDS have been regarded, from our 

 childhood days, as the most delight- 

 ful objects of animated nature ; no 

 music falls so tenderly upon the ear, or reaches the heart 

 sooner, than that of the lovely feathered choristers. Every 

 person cart find something to admire in birds, from the great 

 eagle which circles above the Rocky or White Mountains, do- 

 fying the brilliancy of the sun, to the little brown thrush 

 which pipes its feeble notes in the hedge. The great variety 



