6/30/2023 0 Comments Wind waker songs see in gameOn the same principles the ornithologist will direct you where to look for the greenlets, the wood-sparrow, or the chewink. Show a botanist a landscape, and he will tell you where to look for the lady’s-slipper, the columbine, or the harebell. The distribution of plants in a given locality is not more marked and defined than that of the birds. In summer he is one of those birds of the deep northern forests, that, like the speckled Canada warbler and the hermit-thrush, only the privileged ones hear. And so shy and coy was the little minstrel, that I came twice to the woods before I was sure to whom I was listening. I shall not soon forget that perfect June day, when, loitering in a low, ancient hemlock wood, in whose cathedral aisles the coolness and freshness seems perennial, the silence was suddenly broken by a strain so rapid and gushing, and touched with such a wild, sylvan plaintiveness, that I listened in amazement. He possesses the fluency and copiousness for which the wrens are noted, and besides these qualities, and what is rarely found conjoined with them, a wild, sweet, rhythmical cadence that holds you entranced. He is not so conscious of his powers and so ambitious of effect as the white-eyed fly-catcher, yet you will not be less astonished and delighted on hearing him. The winter-wren is another marvelous songster, in speaking of whom it is difficult to avoid superlatives.
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