[2] As heard by John Burroughs.
[3] This repeated paraphrase is from F. Schuyler Mathews, ornithologist and musician.
[4] The words suggested to John Burroughs by the variations of the Song Sparrow.
[5] Toxaway, the Indian’s name for the Cardinal.
[6] There were only seven children in this family when the first two stanzas were written three years ago.—C. J.
[7] If anyone thinks the author has overdrawn the artistic merits of the bird, he is referred to the expert opinion of F. Schuyler Mathews in his “Field Book of Wild Birds and Their Music,” pages 234-246, wherein this musician and lover of birds convincingly compares and contrasts, by musical scales and other data, the powers of the Hermit and Nightingale in favor of the former.—C. J.
[8] With slight change the interpretation by Mathews of the song of the Olive Back Thrush.
[9] After the author had written this line he was glad to learn that the late John Burroughs in his “Birds and Poets,” page 17, spoke of the Mocking-bird as “both Lark and Nightingale in one.”
[10] A tradition with some says that the Jay goes to the lower regions every Friday, and carries a grain of sand.
[11] This particular butterfly was first seen clinging, about three feet above the pavement, to the large masonic temple in Charlotte, N. C., and was gently enticed by the author into his hand, later crawling up his arm and remaining with his new companion for over an hour.