THE RETURN OF THE NATIVES. ']'] 



the immaculate under parts ; while his wife is 

 olive green above, and yellowish beneath. 



There is a peculiarity in their movements when 

 you come to know them, though it can hardly be 

 described. These seen to-day confine themselves 

 to the lower branches ; oftentimes starting from 

 the trunk, and hopping along the entire length of 

 the bough, inspecting every square inch of bark, 

 till they come to the farthest spray, where they 

 flutter among the leaves, and revel in the banquet 

 of insects spread out before them. 



One can scarcely hear their note, it is such a 

 ghost of a voice ; a mere whisper, as if the reeds 

 in their clarinet wind-pipes had become disar- 

 ranged and out of tune. The yeUow rump has 

 much the same kind of bronchial trouble. 



Halting for a moment, in my rambles, to admire 

 this pretty picture of red columbines that have 

 grown in a crevice of a ledge, and blossomed in 

 such brilliant relief against the gray moss, I am 

 conscious of a small bunch of feathers moving 

 along the branches of a young oak near by. It is 

 the blue yellow-back warbler. Linnaeus and Bona- 

 parte examined him early in this century, and 

 labeled him Parus Americana, probably because 

 they fancied his manners were more like the tit- 



