Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 438
do not goscrambling over tree-trunks, thus making them-selves unnecessarily conspicuous. It is a fact that the cardinal does not makeitself conspicuous in winter, in spite of its brightplumage. There are many constantly near myhome; yet they go dodging in and out amongthe blackberry and smilax… … an outreaching branch, as the song-sparrows dowhen singing. Now this song-sparrow is verymuch the color of the stick it perches upon.If it did not move at times, it would be veryhard to distinguish from a knot on a tree. Then why should not all the birds be greenin summer, so we could not see them…
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