But House People are very blind about some things, and often act as if they had only one eye apiece, like the Cyclopes.

We see one of these darling birds take a little fruit; we see more fruit with holes in it, and think that birds have done the damage, though a wasp or hornet may be the guilty party; and then we often say, 'What a nuisance those birds are!' "But all the rest of the growing year, when these same birds toil from sunrise until sunset, to clear away insect pests and give us a better crop of fruit next year, we do not notice it.

You children, however, will have no such excuse for keeping one eye shut when you know Citizen Bird as he really is." "How late at night does the Wood Thrush sing ?" asked Nat.

"Does he never sleep ?" "Oh, yes, he goes to sleep when it is really dark, but at this nesting season the night in Birdland is very short; some of the feathered people are stirring at three o'clock, and by four all thrifty birds have dressed themselves to go out marketing for breakfast." "The Veeries are singing down by the river," said Olive to her father; "perhaps we had better go there before it grows dark." "Veeries?
Is that what you call those birds ?" asked Rap.

"I never knew their name, so I called them 'sunset birds,' to myself." "Veeries, yes, but called Wilson's Thrush, too," said the Doctor; "because this kind of Thrush was named after Alexander Wilson, who wrote a description of it, and published a colored plate of it, seventy-five years ago.