Flycatcher, Great-Crested 



Odder things than these he uses, 

 Things for something else than comfort; 

 Sometimes to the general tangle 

 He will add a tail of chipmunk, 

 Sometimes fish scales, iridescent, 

 Mingle in the mystic chaos, 

 But his chiefly favored fetish 

 Is a piece of cast-off snake skin. 



BOLLES. Chocorua's Tenants. 19 



FLYCATCHER, OLIVE-SIDED 



The short necks of the flycatchers make their heads 

 appear large for their bodies, a peculiarity slightly em- 

 phasized in this member of the family A 



sharp, loud whistle, when-o-when-o-when-o, rings out from 

 the throat of this olive-sided tyrant, warning all intruders 

 off the premises; but however harshly he may treat the 

 rest of the feathered world, he has only gentle devotion 

 to offer his brooding mate. 



NELTJE BLANCHAN. Bird Neighbors. 23 



GEESE, WILD 



We cannot well afford not to see the geese go over a 

 single spring, and so commence our year regularly. 



THOREAU. Spring. 12 



