Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · New York : Scribner · leaf 83
n see him plunge headlong into thewater and come out with a gleaming shinerin his big bill. In the marshes are the beau-tiful clear-piping redwings and the chucklingmarsh-wrens, and you may startle a big brownbittern. . Along the roadways the vesper-spar-rows may fly ahead of vou, showing their… … RED-SHOULDRREDTHE BLACKBIRD-MARSHES. M \KES MUSIC IN 648 ^ NATIKK AND SCIENCE FOR YOfNG FOLKS. 649 naturally into families as much by similar hab-its as bv what scientific men call character.Thus, flycatcliers dart out and catch insects onthe wing, with a snap of the bill, returning totheir perch…
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