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In turn each of the cats received its lesson, and henceforth Evelyn's last presents blackbirds, thrushes, linnets, and bull-finches lived in safety. The feeding of these birds and the cleaning of the aviary occupied two hours a day during the winter.
But if you breathed that air, and shut your eyes, north, you could see blue flags, scarlet lilies, buttercups, cattails and redbirds sailing over them; east, there would be apple bloom and soft grass, cowslips, and bubbling water, robins, thrushes, and bluebirds; and south, waving corn with wild rose and alder borders, and sparrows, and larks on every fence rider.
We called them Mother Carey's geese, and found them pretty good eating; The land-birds were eagles, or hawks, bald-headed vultures, or what our seamen called turkey-buzzards, thrushes, and a few other small birds. Our naturalists found two new species of birds. The one is about the size of a pigeon, the plumage as white as milk.
Grape-vines grew thickly on every hand, laden with their clustered fruit. The shore and forest abounded with animal life. The woods were loud with the chirruping of thrushes, goldfinches, canaries, and other birds.
Presently Rose heard first the scrape of his boat on the sand, then the soft sound of his paddles against the water, then nothing but the squirrels and the woodpeckers and the thrushes, then not even these, nothing but the beating of her own heart. She sat down heavily, feeling as if she were wide awake for the first time in many weeks. How had things come to this pass with her?
Now he recollected that he had heard that the mariners depended a great deal on the morning and the evening the land and the Lake breeze as they worked along the shore. This was the first breath of the Land breeze. It freshened after a while, and he re-set his sail. An hour or so afterwards he came near the shore; he heard the thrushes singing, and the cuckoo calling, long before he landed.
And of course caterpillars of the puss-moth variety oughtn't to make faces at timid young thrushes. But it is just these things which make such pleasant memories afterwards when professors and toads are departed, when the hammers lie rusty in the coal cellar, and when the young thrushes are grown up to be quite big birds.
Cut of about seventy land-birds inhabiting Ceram, only fifteen are found in New Guinea, and none of these are terrestrial or forest-haunting species. The cassowary is distinct; the kingfishers, parrots, pigeons, flycatchers, honeysuckers, thrushes, and cuckoos, are almost always quite distinct species.
Despite the melancholy and desolation of the town, while the women sang in the church, birds sang in the foliage, and the thrushes piped their lyrical strain on the withered branches of the orange trees. Demetrio Macias' wife, mad with joy, rushed along the trail to meet him, leading a child by the hand. An absence of almost two years! They embraced each other and stood speechless.
A nest had been built in a conspicuous spot by a pair of shrike thrushes, which the blacks, according to locality, know as "Moorgoody" and "Too-dring." The birds are the sweetest-voiced of all natives, and become wondrous tame and confiding.
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