MAINE (RNITHOLOGLST AND OOLO'ilST, 



A laO'nirg \, alk. yoa -will not fail to understand how the 



wiaiTEN FOK THE M o.&o. 1 prevailing characterestic.^ of this sympa" 



— ^'='**-*'-'~ tlietie P'lenehman must have burned 



I^tvolled oue morninjr into oneot the ; ^'-ithin him tomahe of him such a cham- 



Pleasaut parks of one of our large ci'ies, |piou of the rights of a foreign people. 



aud as no weightier matter occupied | In tiie square below is the bust of 



mv mind I fell to musiuo about tlie birds I Lincoln, tl>€ course black hair that 



as was quite natur.il, as laige quanities \ ^tood always erect over a brow that the 



of the English Sparrow were about ; and J hi-^torian has defined as that of ''Otieot 



as I observed closelv, were the onlv hind 



Nature's Noblemen." and we think of 



there, and I think these put me out of j him as the foremost figure in that great 

 humor, my idea's of trees and their | struggle for supremacy between the north 

 population being associated with the U^nd south, which must have deepened 

 Robin, tlie Oriole, and the (ioldfiuch, | those lines that furrow his brow, but 

 and these it seemel hadall been dislodged ! still they cannot hide that humor that 

 by this for.iiG:n importation that neither | made him not only the princo of st..ry 

 by plumage added any thing to pleasure Itellers, but always aud e\ ery where tiie 

 of the I'-Tidscape, or by song bespolieitsl master. 



o'.vn pleasures in the joys of the bright | r,^ tlie square above stands the starue 

 morning. ! ofAVashi jgton and the sculptor has very 



Birds uaturaly .suggest either by their | .,^3^,,. i-epvesented this gi-eat c.mmand- 

 freedom of motion; their song: tiieir ^^. (^^ ^.j,.^^ mounted on his horse with 

 powerofflight;orstelthiutakingprey ,^^^^^ .j^.^^^j .^^ command: a. d as I 

 som«characlerest.c oltheir own, which I ^,^-^^^. ^^.^,^^ ^.^,,,.^^.^_ ^,,^^^^,^ ^^^^..^^^5^^ 



make them above all other ohiects ai , • •. .1 . 1 ' 



' land mairnannuitv that have made the 



pleasing and interestiuir i-^tudv. ' t 



*. ' ' luaraeot \V ashinsrton the pnde of the 



Thus we observe that the benu.ifu!,^,^^^,.i,^^3^^^^,^j^.;\^,^^j^^.^. ^.j^^-^^ ^^^.^^ 



morning i§ the native elenient of tiie | j^^,, ^^^^1^1^^^ ^;/ >;.^^j^j,.,l ^..^j^^,,,^^^^p,.}^g 



Lark ; and the storm, of the Stormy ^ j^ brought to mind, t :at king among the 



Petrel ; and while we study the cliar- birds the. (lohUn Kagle. 



aCteristics of the winsred creation, we i -^ , t 1 .1 1 ,1 1 ^i ^ 



^ . - ""^ . , i i^'it 'I- I Iciive the park, glad that T.iy 



Can but think of some of the niai'kedl ,. .• 1 i , i /■ ,' 



Attention has been t->ken ti-cm the 



characters that illustrate tlie «treni^h ol , . • . , , 111. 



. . , , ichf^rupino: Sparrows. 1 can Imt v lih TJiiit 



the Lgo m mankind, that seems verv I , , . ' , . , 



, , ,. 1 P I 1 •, ' I the bu'ds that nest 111 liie ti-ee> ahont tiie 



analegous to that (Ji tlie teJthered tribe, ! 



. " , , T ^ ,.,, ii'ountrv -omesteads and urike themorn- 



Across the path stands astatue otdi^n. i . *' - 



T r XX 1 • -11 ^^- 1 Sin'jf air reverie -ate wi*^h tluM'r "f'nd ,-oni:s, 



Laiavette and in guilt letters on tin- '•■ i~ . ^ 



base^is inscribed -When I hear-? -ouhrfiU t!>e<e p:.rks. and upon the 



American Independance niv heart va^ : ^-^^7^^'^ thronir. th.^r Ireo :r!ad life 

 enlisted"aud as vou lo >k at the Bu^t i ^ouhl surely. loavO it. impress of beauty . 



