Where Town and Country Meet 



study could be more stimulated and broad- 

 ened than by making a series of observa- 

 tions simultaneously upon fishes and birds. 

 These two great kingdoms are strangely 

 alike and yet unlike. Their contrasts and 

 correspondences are more interesting than 

 any romance, and there is an endless delight 

 in discovering and bringing out new points, 

 both of striking divergence and likeness. 



The waking of the fishes in the spring 

 is a most charming chapter to study in con- 

 nection with the return of the birds. I sup- 

 pose there is scarcely one person in fifty who 

 knows that many tribes of fishes, as well as 

 of birds, migrate to warmer waters during 

 the winter, and return, at the same time with 

 the birds, to lay eggs and even build nests 

 as they do. But this is a fact long ago estab- 

 lished by scientists ; and there may be, if we 

 choose, great delight in knowing and taking 

 advantage of it. 



April is distinctively the month of wak- 

 ing and activity with the fishes, just as it 

 is with the birds; and from then until the 

 middle or latter part of May is the time 

 when both tribes may be studied with the 

 greatest profit and delight. Any one who 

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