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REMOTE - 
OF BIRDS. 
No class of the animal kingdom is more interesting than 
Birds. Their infinite variety of form, habits, and manners ; 
their plumage, always beautiful, often rich and gorgeous ; 
their powers of flight and grace of motion, their curious 
nests, their varied music; the bittern’s boom, the cawing of 
the busy rooks, the cock’s shrill clarion, the capricious lay 
of the mocking-bird, or the sweet warbling of the oriole — • 
nay, even the hoarse cries of the sea-birds, and the garrulous 
clucking of the barn-fowls — these all combine to endear us 
to the feathered creation, since all are appropriate — all are 
the voice of Nature. The* birds are associated with many 
delightful scenes dear to memory. 
Who sees the swallow on his first return and dreams not 
