120 FRESH FIELDS 



White names twenty-two species of birds that 

 sing in England during the spring and summer, 

 including the swallow in the list. A list of the 

 spring and summer songsters in New York and 

 New England, without naming any that are charac- 

 teristically wood-birds, like the hermit thrush and 

 veery, the two wagtails, the thirty or more war- 

 blers, and the solitary vireo, or including any of 

 the birds that have musical call-notes, and by some 

 are denominated songsters, as the bluebird, the 

 sandpiper, the swallow, the red-shouldered starling, 

 the pewee, the high-hole, and others, would embrace 

 more names, though perhaps no songsters equal to 

 the lark and nightingale, to wit: the robin, the 

 catbird, the Baltimore oriole, the orchard oriole, 

 the song sparrow, the wood sparrow, the vesper 

 sparrow, the social sparrow, the swamp sparrow, 

 the purple finch, the wood thrush, the scarlet tan- 

 ager, the indigo- bird, the goldfinch, the bobolink, 

 the summer yellowbird, the meadowlark, the house 

 wren, the marsh wren, the brown thrasher, the 

 chewink, the chat, the red-eyed vireo, the white- 

 eyed vireo, the Maryland yellow-throat, and the rose- 

 breasted grosbeak. 



The British sparrows are for the most part song- 

 less. What a ditty is that of our song sparrow, 

 rising from the garden fence or the roadside so 

 early in March, so prophetic and touching, with 

 endless variations and pretty trilling effects; or the 

 song of the vesper sparrow, full of the repose and 

 the wild sweetness of the fields; or the strain of 



