FROM SPRING TO FALL. 



admirable manner, pretending to run about and 

 feed. We are soon surrounded by them in all 

 directions ; but we do not move, though we look 

 as well as we can to right and left of us — we can 

 only hear them when they are behind us. 



Presently, one or two fine cocks, in all their 

 beauty of bronzy sheen and white, come directly 

 in front of us, as near as they think is quite safe 

 for them. So close are they that we can see their 

 feathering and their full bright eyes, while they 

 stoop, raise their beautiful crests, and lower to 

 erect them once more. This time they are standing 

 up fair and square, in order to inspect us, uttering 

 a faint quivering " weet " the while. It is much 

 too bad of us to stand here in this post-like fashion, 

 causing them such great anxiety; so we move. 

 They know what it is now, and we are surrounded 

 by a mob of wailing birds. But they need not 

 have put themselves out so much, for not one of 

 their eggs did we move; we only looked at them 

 and passed on. 



A gentle twittering song reaches us; and as 

 we look round, we find where the music proceeds 

 from. Two or three pairs of rose-linnets are con- 



