POPE CARDINAL 



CHAPTER VII 



VIRGINIAN NIGHTINGALES 



" It must have a kind of human facility in adopting 

 itself to climate, as it has human domesticity of temper." 



OST people who have visited bird shops 

 know the jolly, flaring Virginian nightingale 

 — Cardinal Grosbeak is his other name — by 



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sight. 



He is as conspicuous as a Life Guardsman walking 

 down Knightsbridge. 



Bright scarlet, which colour deepens by a wash 

 of brown in it on the upper parts, he is not easily 

 hidden from view ; and his pretty crest, raised or 

 depressed at will, with his big hawfinch-bill of sealing- 

 wax red, edged round with a small black mask, 

 enhances the general flaring and perky appearance. 

 He is called a nightingale, not because he is one in 



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