CIRCUIT OF THE SUMMER HILLS 



rel, maybe the hawk. Hence his tribe is much less. 

 His range is also more restricted, and his feeding 

 habits much less miscellaneous. Only the woods and 

 groves are his; the fields and rivers he knows not. 



The crow is a noisy bird. All his tribe are noisy, 

 but the noise probably has little psychic significance. 

 The raven in Alaska appears to soliloquize most of 

 the time. This talkativeness of the crow tribe is 

 probably only a phase of crow life, and signifies no 

 more and no less than other phases — their color, 

 their cunning, the flick of their wings, and the like. 

 The barnyard fowls are loquacious also, but prob- 

 ably their loquacity is not attended with much 

 psychic activity. 



In the mornings of early summer the out-of-door 

 sleeper is more likely to be awakened by the song- 

 birds. In June and early July they strike up about 

 half -past three. " When it is light enough to see that 

 all is well around you, it is light enough to sing," 

 they carol. "Before the early worm is stirring, 

 we will celebrate the coming of day." During the 

 summer the song -sparrows have been the first to 

 nudge me in the morning with their songs. One 

 little sparrow in particular would perch on the tele- 

 phone-wire above the roadside and go through his 

 repertoire of five songs with great regularity and 

 joyousness. He will long be associated in my mind 

 with those early, fragrant, summer dawns. One of 

 his five songs fell so easily into words that I had only 

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