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The rarest of all the birds which I have found nesting in the Park is a little yellow and green warbler, with a black throat and sides of the face, known as the Lawrence warbler. Only a few of his kind have ever been seen, and strange to say his mate was none other than a demure blue-winged warbler. His nest was on the ground and from it six young birds flew to safety and not to museum drawers.
The glories of our May bird life are the wood warblers, and innumerable they must seem to one who is just beginning his studies; indeed, there are over seventy species that find their way into the United States. Many are named from the distribution of colour upon their plumage the blue-winged yellow, the black-throated blue, chestnut-sided, bay-breasted, and black poll.
"You forget, Francois," said Lucien, "there were two other links to the chain, and perhaps many more." "What other links?" demanded Francois. "The humming-bird, you remember, when attacked, was himself a destroyer. He was killing the little blue-winged fly." "That is certainly another link, but " "Who killed the eagle?" "Ah, true! Basil, then, was the last link in the chain of destruction."
Lucien was nearest, and his face was within a few feet of the little creatures, so that he could observe every motion they made. He was soon gratified with a sight that determined his "point" for him. A swarm of small blue-winged flies attracted his attention. They were among the blossoms, sometimes resting upon them, and sometimes flitting about from one to another.
A Citizen of North America, who nests from the Northern States northward and winters mostly in the Southern States or beyond. The flesh is delicious, and this Teal is so small it can be split and broiled like a spring Chicken. The Blue-winged Teal Length fifteen or sixteen inches a little more than the Green-winged Teal, but not much.
This aroused the ducks in the open water to flight, and they came in, seeking the shelter of the shore a fatal protection. Charles, the original explorer of the Sound as a sporting place, and founder of the "Raymond Hall" Club, did some good work taking them, right and left, with each barrel, and dropping single blue-winged teal with unerring aim.
While this fit was on, the keeper never dared to come near him." The rhinoceros is often accompanied by a sentinel, to give him warning a beautiful green-backed and blue-winged bird, about the size of a jay which sits on one of his horns. The following account of the perils of a party hunting for the rhinoceros is given by Mr.
"Why, who knows but the blue-winged fly was preying upon some other creatures smaller than himself? And these again, upon others still less; who, though invisible to our eyes, possess life and organisation as well as we. Who knows to the contrary? And who knows the reason why a mysterious Providence has created those beings to be the food of each other?
In the daytime a crowd of large, beautiful butterflies, brilliant humming birds, and blue-winged jays and parroquets come and cling to the moss, which then resembles a white tapestry embroidered with splendid and varied hues. "Every evening we made a great fire and built a shelter out of a large hollow piece of bark, fixed on four stakes.
There, "lying flat on the ground, his head in the shadow of some rabbit's burrow," or sheltered from the sun by a great umbrella, "while the blue-winged locusts frisked for joy," he would follow the rapid and sibilant flight of the elegant Bembex, carrying their daily ration of diptera to her larvae, at the bottom of her burrow, deep in the fine sand."
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