IO BIRDS OF P. E. ISLAND. 
     
    
   
   
    
     season, and becoming an inhabitant of every clinic. 
     
     These migratory movements that sweep off the 
     
     flocks of our feathered families from the brown 
     
     fields and storm-beaten shores of autumn, and 
     
     bring their glad voices again with the sunshine 
     
     and blossoms of spring, form one of the most 
     
     interesting features of bird—life, and have always 
     
     attracted the attention of observers of Nature. A 
     
    
   
   
    
     Scottish poet thus greets the returning swallow: 
     
    
   
   
    
     “The little comer ’s coming, 
     
     The comer o’er the sea, 
     
    

    
     The comer of the summer, all 
     
     The summer (lays to be. 
     
    

    
     How pleasant, through the pleasant sleep, 
     
    

    
     Thy early twitter heard. 
     
     0 swallow, by the lattice! 
     
    

    
     Glad days be thy reward." 
     
    
   
   
    
     The weeping prophet of Israel observed that 
     
     “The stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed 
     
     times; and the turtle, and the crane, and the 
     
     swallow.” 
     
    

    
     Milton enriches his grand poetical descriptions 
     
    
   
   
    
     by pictures from bird migrations : 
     
    

    
     “ So steers the prudent crane 
     
     Her annual voyage, borne on winds; the air 
     
     Floats as they pass, fanned with unnumbered plumes.”