FOREST ADORNMENT 



and wait for the scraps of the fores- 

 ter's meal. Another interesting bird 

 to watch in his movements is the red- 

 winged blackbird. Out along the 

 edges of the forest and in the swamps 

 and marshes lying between bits of 

 woodland, he may be seen from earliest 

 spring to the last days of fall.'' We 

 cannot help watching him passing 

 restlessly to and fro by himself, or cir- 

 cling happily about in the flock, re- 

 turning at last to his clumps of alders 

 and willows, or disappearing among the 

 hazy reeds and grasses. But if, in- 

 stead of grace and movement, we are 

 more interested in sound, we shall find 

 no songbird with sweeter notes than 

 the thrush. Whatever added name he 

 may bear, we are sure of a fine quality 

 of music ; music with modulating notes^ 

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