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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