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AWAKENING OF BIRDS. 
they enlivened the deep-green forests of tropical climes, 
that the return of a northern spring* excites in the mind 
a deep feeling of the beauties of the season, a sense of 
the bounty and providence of the Supreme Being, 
which is cheaply purchased by the tedium of nine 
months of winter. The most verdant lawns and culti- 
vated glades of Europe, the most beautiful productions 
of art, fail in producing that exhilaration and joyous 
buoyancy of mind which we have experienced in 
treading the wilds of Arctic America, when their 
snowy covering has been just replaced by an infant but 
vigorous vegetation. It is impossible for the traveller 
to refrain, at such moments, from joining his aspirations 
to the song which every creature around is pouring 
forth to the great Creator.” 
We may add, many naturalists, as Catesby, Buffon, 
Sparrman, award to tropical birds the greatest brilliancy 
and beauty of plumage, but deny them the melody of 
voice, or song. It is certainly true that many of the most 
beautiful birds, as parrots, toucans, spoonbills, cuckoos, 
&c. have a coarse and unmelodious voice, yet it would 
be unfair, from this circumstance, to deny the power of 
song altogether to the feathered inhabitants of the 
tropical regions. Hernandez, Sloan e, Clavigero, Ulloa, 
Molina, and Azara, mention birds, natives of Jamaica, 
Mexico, and South America, known for their melodious 
song. Forster also informs us, that many small birds 
in Otaheite have considerable extent and power of song. 
It has been remarked, that those wild birds which come 
in contact with man, and often hear the human voice, 
have their note or song improved. 
Aivahening of Birds. — Early Morning . 
The awakening of our British Birds, and the early 
morning of England, are thus beautifully sketched by 
Mr Knapp : — 
“ At one period of my life, being an early waker, and 
riser, my attention was frequently drawn ‘ to songs of 
earliest birds and I always observed, that these 
creatures appeared abroad at very different periods, as 
