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HISTORY OF CALIFORNIA. 



mind a deep feeling of the beauties of the season, a 

 sense of the bounty and providence of the Supreme 

 Being, ^vhich is cheaply purchased by the tedium of 

 nine months winter. The most verdant lawns and 

 cultivated glades of Europe, the most beautiful pro- 

 ductions of art, fail in producing that exhilaration 

 and joyous buoyancy of mind which we have expe- 

 rienced in treading the w^ilds of Arctic America, when 

 their snowy covering has just been replaced by an 

 infant but vigorous vegetation.' " 



THE CAT BIRD. 



The Cat Bird {Mimus Felivox) is found in various 

 parts of California. This quaint and familiar song- 

 ster passes the winter in the southern extremities of 

 the United States, and along the coast of Mexico, 

 from whence, as early as February, they arrive in 



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