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beautiful spot, the most beautiful of any seen in the region. From a mountain 

 spring the water came tumbling down a narrow wooded gulch between moss- 

 covered banks and among mossy logs and clusters of tall spreading fern fronds 

 into the clear pool of the reservoir, shadowed by a brotherhood of noble hem- 

 locks, their branches hung with swaying pale green moss. Here in the solemn 

 conclave of Druids, where the wind sings with hushed voice, from the moss 





VARIED THRUSH 



From Bailey's' "Handbook of Birds of the Western 

 States." By courtesy of Houghton Mifflin Company. 



United 



and ferns of the rich earth carpet came the call of the little brown woodlander, 

 the Winter Wren, a lover of just such forest depths. And it was easy to ima- 

 gine a band of the great Pigeons hooting solemnly from the tree tops overlook- 

 ing the clear water of the beautiful pool. 



