402 THE AWAKENING OF THE BIRDS. 
often as in the early dusk. Then he puts forth his finest 
effort; and if you would fully appreciate his song, you 
must listen to his matinee which he gives in the earliest 
light. 
“While the Robin is yet singing, the two Pewees awake, 
and mingle their mournful itos with the Robin-concert. 
These notes, though so sad and plaintive, have, never- 
theless, a pleasing effect; and the common Pewee espec- 
ially is welcome. Long after you have ceased to hear 
him in the broad glare of day, or even in the quiet even- 
ing, you may listen to him in the early morning, the 
fresh air of which seems to have an electric effect, not 
only upon him, but upon all the other birds besides. 
Shortly after the Robin has finished his song, or rather 
while he is still singing, the Bluebird is heard “saluting 
the morn with his soft notes.” You seldom hear him 
during g the hot summer days of June and July; but here, 
in the early morning, he is the same gallant and musical 
fellow that he was in March and April. Simultaneously 
with the Bluebird the Chipping Sparrow awakes, and is 
soon heard chanting his simple cricket-like song from the 
garden and lawn. 
But now, as the light increases, and the clouds in the 
east give evidence by. their crimson hues that the sun is 
nearing the horizon, birds of all sorts begin to awake. 
The sharp “sphack” of the Least Flycatcher comes from 
the orchards; the King-birds make the fields noisy with 
their notes, and the songs come so thick and fast, that it 
is next to impossible to tell which was the earliest. The 
Song Sparrows and the Indigo-birds sing sweetly from 
their accustomed haunts, white the Vesper Sparrow de- 
livers his delightful strains from the broad open pasture- 
lands. This latter bird seems to take a fancy to singing 
