The Ruby-crowru :: Ah... 
Photo by the A uthor 
-'■ ■ !<0VV:\! ;) ET SEES 
■ he is keeping a paid engagement. Well, 
■ tell-nvs, anyhow! 
■t: si apo'heusis of rest! ultimate of soul’s 
: all, the Ruoy-rrowned Kinglet sings! 
: aces the imagination. Tireless he shouts 
Western Gnatcatcher 
From a photograph , copyright 1913, by IF. L. Daves on 
- ■■ nv unit in the winter throng, careless 
< ■ : !!•,• Spring roused him to thought 
u o* ■)! i hum' To him to notice, to pursue and cap- 
■ • i'.rate in an ever-recurring note of ecstasy, 
sit;- demurely upon the nest. Love’s favors 
r '■ ■■•,: for him, v.hat; J Remains loyalty! Devotion! 
v oi love which is above the heat of the blood 
•’ favors. The singer—surely he knows not why— 
> win tree-top to tree-top, and all that his mate may 
’• ug vigil. The bird rises above himself, and is, 
.1 if rustic fellowship of which God is the founder, 
■.i unworthy members. For a season! Alas! there 
: ' v. pity of it. Summer ends, the necessity is over. 
■ ... <,ve been accomplished, and the birds forget— 
■ "til as though they had never been. 
h--. . has seemed to grasp the reality of 
; ni ranc< into the fellowship of the immortals, 
h.f. ;-i 1 to call him ‘brot her,’ the bird forgets—• 
