"'Jore-e Blur-re, Jore-e Blur-re, willy-nilly, willy-nilly!' he calls defiantly, as if he did not like having to keep quiet all day, and meant to tell his name at last.
"In early autumn the Joree family grow sociable enough to come into the garden, but they seldom linger late; vigorous as they are, they hurry southward before any hard frosts come."
The Towhee
Length about eight and a half inches.
Male: black with chestnut sides, white belly, tan-colored under the tail, the side feathers of which are white-tipped.
Female: reddish-brown where the male is black.
A Summer Citizen of the United States east of the plains, and along the southern border of Canada. Nests northward from Georgia. Winters south of the Middle States.
A Ground Gleaner, Seed Sower, and Weed Warrior.
THE CARDINAL (THE CARDINAL GROSBEAK)
"There is a legend about this Cardinal—the soldier with a red uniform," said the Doctor; "one of Mammy Bun's strange stories that came from the Indians to the negroes, always growing larger and stranger.