100 UPLAND AND MEADOW. 



for I have seen a caged canary sing for several seconds 

 while certainly sound asleep ; but it is otherwise witli 

 the marsh - wrens. They are fully conscious of their 

 singing, and, indeed, fly up from the reeds, as in broad 

 daylight ; and to him who has not heard this concert 

 by moonlight, with its pleasing accompaniment of rip- 

 pling waters, booming of bitterns, far-ofiE cry of the 

 whippoor-will, and the sudden qnok ! of the night heron, 

 a pleasing experience of out-of-doors yet remains. 



