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"She is a fair girl, with blue eyes and the most wonderful hair; 'chestnut-red with gold in it, as Jessie described it to me. And she says that this girl wears the most beautiful diamonds I am still quoting Jessie and other precious stones, and that she is very 'high and mighty, and more haughty than any of the other ladies. Who is it?"
This species is distinguishable from the last by its small size, a crimson band on each side of the head, and the nape being golden yellow. Pyrrhopicus pyrrhotis. The red-eared bay woodpecker. The head is brown. The rest of the upper plumage is cinnamon or chestnut-red with blackish cross-bars. There is a crimson patch behind each ear, which forms a semi-collar in the male.
The forehead, cheeks, sides of the neck, and thighs are chestnut-red, as is a patch under the tail. The chin and throat and the median portion of the breast and abdomen are white with faint grey stripes. Scimitar-babblers have habits similar to those of laughing-thrushes. They go about in pairs, seeking for insects among fallen leaves. The call is a loud whistle.
By and by a bird came with low, swift flight, its great tail spread open fan-wise, and perched itself on an exposed bough not thirty yards from us. It was all of a chestnut-red colour, long-bodied, in size like a big pigeon.
You see how confusing this is, and how much better it is for the Wise Men, who know him intimately, to give him one name you can be sure is right." The Catbird. Length between eight and nine inches. Upper parts slate color. Crown, bill, feet, and tail black. Under parts lighter grayish-slate color, except a chestnut-red patch under the tail. A Summer Citizen of the United States.
Here I first saw this strange beautiful fowl, and here to my delight I found its nest in three consecutive summers, with three or four clay-coloured eggs spotted with chestnut-red. Here, too, was the breeding-place of the beautiful black-and-white stilt, and of other species too many to mention.
They had also with them some curious monkeys with enormous noses, faces of a brick-dust colour, and about as ugly specimens of the monkey tribe as I ever saw. Their bodies were about three feet in length covered with thick fur, of a bright chestnut-red. I am almost afraid to say how long their noses were, but they stuck out with the nostrils at the tips and had certainly a most curious appearance.
Laughing-thrushes are merely glorified babblers. It is a reddish brown fowl, about eight inches long. Each of its feathers has a black shaft; it is these dark shafts that give the bird its streaked appearance. Its chin, throat, and breast are chestnut-red, and on each cheek there is a patch of similar hue.
Its color approaches to ultramarine, while it has a sash of chestnut-red across its shoulders, all the effects, I suspect, of that wonderful air and sky of California, and of those great Western plains; or, if one goes a little higher up into the mountainous regions of the West, he finds the Arctic bluebird, the ruddy brown on the breast changed to a greenish blue, and the wings longer and more pointed; in other respects not differing much from our species.
It is pretty to watch the squirrel in his chestnut-red coat among the oaks in their fresh green foliage, full of fun as a bright child, eating his apple like a child, only it is an oak-apple, shining white or white and rosy-red, in his little paws; but you have seen it so many times come away: It was not this voice alone which made me forsake the green oaks of Silchester and Pamber Forest, to ramble for a season hither and thither in Wiltshire, Dorset, and Somerset; there was something for me to do in those places, but the call made me glad to go.
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