POPE CARDINAL 



CHAPTER VII 

 VIRGINIAN NIGHTINGALES 



" It must have a kind of human facility in adopting 

 itself to climate, as it has human domesticity of temper." 



MOST people who have visited bird shops 

 know the jolly, flaring Virginian nightingale 

 Cardinal Grosbeak is his other name by 

 sight. 



He is as conspicuous as a Life Guardsman walking 

 down Knightsbridge. 



Bright scarlet, which colour deepens by a wash 

 of brown in it on the upper parts, he is not easily 

 hidden from view ; and his pretty crest, raised or 

 depressed at will, with his big hawfinch-bill of sealing- 

 wax red, edged round with a small black mask, 

 enhances the general flaring and perky appearance. 

 He is called a nightingale, not because he is one in 



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