Keesuolukh, kee-su-[=o]'luk, the Great Mystery, i.e. God. Killooleet, kil'loo-leet, the white-throated sparrow.

In one part of the wood, near what I took to be an old city reservoir, I came upon a single white-throated sparrow and a humming-bird,the latter a strangely uncommon sight in Tallahassee, where, of all the places I have ever seen, it ought to find itself in clover.

Along the road were white-crowned and white-throated sparrows (it was the 12th of April), orchard orioles, thrashers, summer tanagers, myrtle and paim warblers, cardinal grosbeaks, mocking-birds, kingbirds, logger-heads, yellowthroated vireos, and sundry others, but not the blue grosbeak, which would have been worth them all.

The long-tailed swallows and the white-throated martins were with us for six months, but about the middle of October they were no more seen.

It was a song about the love of a white-throated sparrow for a birch-tree of the North.

The little white-throated sparrows came familiarly about the palm cabins and whitewashed houses and trilled on the rooftrees.

The latter walked much on the ground, with dainty movements, curtseying and raising its tail; and in accent and sequence, although not in tone or time, its song resembled that of our white-throated sparrow.

"It's a White-throated Sparrow," said Rap, "and it's flown against the telegraph wire in the dark and been killed."

and he only has half a book, and here's a White-throated Sparrow, and we want to know how it's made and why birds can fly and why" Here the Doctor laughingly stopped them and turned to Olive for a clearer account of what had taken place in the orchard, while Rap stood gazing about the room as if he thought that heaven had suddenly opened to him.

"Come up to Orchard Farm by nine o'clock, Rap, and we will begin our lessons with this little White-throated Sparrow Nat has found.

The Doctor took the dead White-throated Sparrow from the table, and began to walk about the room, stopping now in front of the fire and then by the window.

"Here is a Sparrow, different from every other kind of Sparrow, different indeed from any other sort of bird in the worldelse it would not be the particular sort of a Sparrow called the White-throated.

"Here is a picture of the White-throated Sparrow, drawn so big you can see it almost across the room, with all the outside parts of which you must learn the names.

They are true seed-eating birds, and their beaks are short, stout, and thickcone-shaped it is called, like that of the White-throated Sparrow you learned about one day.

WHITE-THROATED SPARROW.

[Illustration: White-Throated Sparrow.]

" The White-throated Sparrow Length about six and a half inches.

" The Wise Man laughed to himself, and then whistled an imitation of the White-throated Sparrow's callat which sound Dodo promptly rolled out of her hammock and bumped into Nat, who was still lying in the grass; then both the children sat up and listened.

White-throated Sparrow Zonotrich'ia albicol'lis.

Green parrots are screaming in the tamarind trees and overhead a white-throated Brahmany kite wheels motionless in the vivid blue.