44 THROUGH GLADE AND MEAD. 
amus, Vieillot) and the purple trillium; the oven- 
bird (Seiurus auricapillus, Sw.) and the wild comfrey 
(Cynoglossum Virginicum, L.); the scarlet tanager 
(Pyranga rubra, Vieillot) and the rhodora; the whip- 
poorwill (Avtrostomus vociferus, Bonaparte) and one of 
the pogonias (P. verticillata, Nutt.) ; the ruffed grouse 
(Bonasa umbellus, Stephens) and the Jack-in-the-pulpit 
(Arisema triphyllum, Torr.). 
A chewink always used to flit along the stone wall 
which bordered one side of the lane leading to the 
home of the purple trillium. It was while looking for 
the pale blue flowers of wild comfrey, near the only 
spot in which I ever found it, that I looked into the 
nest of an oven-bird, which under other circumstances 
would not have been noticed. The rhodora and the 
scarlet tanager were almost always seen for the first 
time each season on the same day. Nothing in the 
landscape could give greater pleasure than the sight of 
these two. I could appreciate Emerson’s praise of the 
rhodora, and Coues’ tribute to the scarlet tanager as 
given in his ‘Birds of the Colorado Valley” where he 
says: 
“JT hold this bird in particular, almost superstitious, 
recollection, as the very first of all the feathered tribe 
to stir within me those emotions that have never ceased 
to stimulate and gratify my love for birds. More years 
have passed than I care to remember since a little child 
