. Sharp eyes; a rambler's calendar of fifty-two weeks among insects, birds and flowers; . im too, and the muffledroll filled the woods. Where did he keep it ? Here isthe testimony of a few of the prominent witnesses whohave seen him in the act. You can take your choice,and then go and find out for yourself. A host of ornithologists claim that the bird beatswith its wings the log on which it stands. Brewer affirms that the wings beat both the log andthe sides of the bird. Audubon says he strikes his sides after the manner ofthe rooster. [An act which the rooster never performs.] Burroughs says
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. Sharp eyes; a rambler's calendar of fifty-two weeks among insects, birds and flowers; . im too, and the muffledroll filled the woods. Where did he keep it ? Here isthe testimony of a few of the prominent witnesses whohave seen him in the act. You can take your choice, and then go and find out for yourself. A host of ornithologists claim that the bird beatswith its wings the log on which it stands. Brewer affirms that the wings beat both the log andthe sides of the bird. Audubon says he strikes his sides after the manner ofthe rooster. [An act which the rooster never performs.] Burroughs says the drum is its own proud breast. Wilson says the bird beats nothing but the air, andBurroughs later comes to the same opinion. Bryant thinks the same. Thoreau and Flagg and the writer assert that thewings are struck above the back if anywhere. All these authorities differ also as to the positionwhich the bird assumes when drumming; some affirm-ing that he stands upright, as a drummer ought, othersthat he stoops to a horizontal position. Come, boys, which of you can give us the facts ?. RAGWEED PITH April 28th STROLLER in wasteplaces or weedy corners, either during the winteror now, before the copses areclothed in foliage, may wellpause a moment among theskeleton thickets of thegreat ragweed, in itsperfection the tallestof our weeds. OneApril, a few years since, I found a stalkeighteen feet fourinches in heightby actual meas-urement. But it-^ is not with a tape-line this time thatI ask you to tarry.Ambrosia, theplant is called in