130 ENGLISH AND AMERICAN SONG-BIRDS. 



in England during the spring and summer, including 

 the swallow in the list. A list of the spring and 

 summer songsters in New York and New England, 

 without naming any that are, characteristically, wood 

 birds, like the hermit thrush and veery, the two wag- 

 tails, the thirty or more warblers, and the solitary 

 vireo, or including any of the birds that have musical 

 call-notes, and by some are denominated songsters, 

 as the bluebird, the sandpiper, the swallow, the red- 

 shouldered starling, the pewee, the high-hole, and 

 others, would embrace more names, though, perhaps, 

 .no songsters equal to the lark and nightingale, to 

 wit : the robin, the cat-bird, the Baltimore oriole, the 

 orchard oriole, the song-sparrow, the wood-sparrow, 

 the vesper sparrow, the social sparrow, the swamp 

 sparrow, the purple finch, the wood-thrush, the scar- 

 let tanager, the indigo-bird, the goldfinch, the bobo- 

 link, the summer yellow-bird, the meadow lark, the 

 house-wren, the marsh-wren, the brown thrasher, 

 the chewink, the chat, the red-eyed vireo, the white- 

 eyed vireo, the Maryland yellow-throat, and the rose- 

 breasted grosbeak. Our bird-choir is far richer in 

 sparrow voices than the British. There appear to 

 be but two sparrows in that country that sing, the 

 hedge-sparrow and reed-sparrow, both, according 

 to Barrington, very inferior songsters ; the latter 

 without mellowness or plaintiveness, and with but 

 little sprightliness or compass, and the former evi- 

 dently lower in the scale than either of our birds. 

 What a ditty is that of our song-sparrow, rising from 



