142 love's meinie. 



another, we are amused or pleased by the 

 chatter and song of birds, that you will 

 scarcely find in any ornithic manual more 

 than a sentence, if so much, about their 

 hearing; and I have not myself, at this 

 moment, the least idea where a nightingale's 

 ears are! But see Appendix, p. 215. 



I retain, therefore, my dodecahedric form of 

 catechism as sufficiently clear ; and without 

 binding myself to follow the order of it in 

 strictness, if there be motive for discursory 

 remark, it will certainly prevent my leaving 

 any bird insufficiently distinguished, and 

 enable me to arrange the collected state- 

 ments about it in the most easily compared 

 order. 



115. We will try it at once on this second 

 variety of the Titania, of which I find nothing 

 of much interest in my books, and have nothing 

 discursive myself to say. 



1. Country. Arctic mostly ; seen off" Green- 

 land, in lat. 68°, swimming among icebergs 

 three or four miles from shore. Abundant 

 in Siberia, and as far south as the Caspian. 

 Migratory in Europe as far as Italy, yet 

 always rare. (Do a few only, more intelligently 



