FINCH, PURPLE. PURPLE LINNET 



His color is peculiar, and looks as if it might have been 

 imparted by dipping a brown bird in diluted poke-berry 

 juice. Two or three more dippings would have made the 

 purple complete. 



BURROUGHS. Wake Robin. 5 



His song is a sweet flowing warble; music as natural 

 as the rippling of a mountain brook. 



CHAPMAN. Bird Life. 22 



The caged linnet in the spring 



Hearkens for the coral glee, 

 When his fellows on the wing 



Migrate from the Southern Sea. 



EMERSON. 



FLICKER. GOLDEN-WINGED WOODPECKER 



The golden-winged is a woodpecker of thirty-six aliases, 

 among which pigeon-woodpecker, yucker, high-hole, high- 

 holder, clape, and yellow-hammer are locally familiar. 



A very ardent and ridiculous-looking lover is this bird, 

 as, with tail stiffly spread, he sidles up to his desired mate 

 and bows and bobs before her, then retreats and advances, 

 bowing and bobbing again, very often with a rival lover 

 beside him trying to outdo him in grace and general at- 

 tractiveness. 



BLANCHAN. Bird Neighbors. 23 



