CHAPTER XV 



The Cardinal Grosbeak: Cardinalis Cardinals 



IN SMALL TREES AND BUSHES 



Early in my field experience 

 with a camera, coming in from the 

 east one day I found the body of a 

 Cardinal Grosbeak lying in the 

 dust just at the entrance to the river 

 bridge. I stopped and picked him 

 up to keep passing horses from 

 trampling his dead body, and as I 

 drove home with him lying on the 

 seat beside me my feelings were 



outraged. ^The brightest bird of our Indiana ornithology, an 

 incomparable singer,) one frequently to be seen about our fields 

 and forests throughout the winter^ a seed-eater that seldom spoils 

 fruit, enough of an insect exterminator to make his presence 

 valuable anywhere,] and he lay there limp, his bright head never 

 to lift again, his brave song never to enrich summer music and 



YOUNG CARDINALS 



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