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THE WEST SHOKE.
adoption for all, the Dative and the immigrant, the
old and the young, and it is not the least pleasant of
their reflection! that their children and the children
of thoir neighbors will reap the reward of their la
lori more fully than they can hope to do. In the
dwrU of Arabia be is looked upon as a public ben
efactor who makes two blades of grass grow where
one grew More, and even more so he who makes a
well in the dwrt, for the refreshment of strangers
and tho mo of coming generations. To found a col
lege to endow a hospital or to create a chair in a uni-
fnraitn im a A..nnA.l.lL I it L iL .
mij ! a wuuiuii-uufiuiw net, even luougQ me mov
ing impuUo 1)0 m much a hope of perpetuating the
namo of lhf Annnr ah a (Inni lr KnnofU munViVJ
Hut (lUietlv drill nnrmtinfnf innaltf tn An
i --'"iiwiivuo v uu ao iucoo b
tlemen havo is far letter, since the action springs
from a purer and more exalted sentiment It is to
uo uui iiaiufrou immigrants irom uer-
many will become- as useful and respected in their
phero aa are thoso citizens who are responsible for
thoir
A few Wnnli Knnt (a
kUO Dvicijf aim me Diras tnem
ri vet will be of interest The idea of bringing these
feathered songsters to Oregon originated with Mr.
trank Dekum, president of the Portland Savings
lion of monojr ro duo tho laccewful currying ont of
kum, Jr. C. h Pflogo, nndertook the work of eecur
.ng .uUcr,!,,. to . fund for lhi, pnrpo(e Thig ef
fort fin!ljr trs,iAtfi ; th, orglnil,to (h
n. 8,r g,irJ,iDl0 Oregon, of which M,
Ihckel troa.0rer. A fand of 1,000.00 wi J
. el, by contention by Ut ono hand J Undfifty
lormu,, Anonc. and Kngli.h cifan,, wi
lrt u hi, w th a rc.idrat n( ik. f
Cnch nd .inging ,,aai T. u;,g0Wfinch' Sn
ritig .Ut tho aoib of Mr K ,?"D& ,N
WUkfc nd will nodonbt ,ttrU 7 C!P8itioD
""king thii iDIx,rtUoa. A T 0IpoD96 '
tb. Jon C t r0t;i !i0(, J'081 "
M ricinitjof thel ' ,he io-
diately select places for nesting and begin the w V
of raising their families, not having time to fly afot
or seek more distant homes; and from the well kn0
habit of these birds to return each spring to the ho
of their birth, it is believed that the young ones will
find their way back after their southern journey next
winter, and Portland will be the center of their colo.
ny, from which they will gradually spread until hu
few years they will be found throughout the entire
region west of the Cascades.
Among the first to appreciate the action of this
society were members of the Ore,
who at once took steps to supplement it by bringing
from the eastern states several of the most desirable
song birds, such as the famous mocking bird of tie
south, the cardinal grosbeak, or redbird, and the joy
ous bob-o-link. These birds, also, will arrive early in
the spring, and will receive, as will also the others,
the fostering attention of the club and the German
society until they can propagate in sufficient numbers
to be past all danger of extinction. One of the steps
to this end was the passage by the legislature in Feb.
ruary of an act to protect birds from destruction and
their nests from spoliation, including our native birds
as well as these strangers.
In the supplement which accompanies this num.
ber of The West Shore is given a group of these
imported songsters, both Germam and American,
with their natural colors of plumage, by which our
people can so familiarize themselves with the appear,
nee of these strangers as to recognize them upon
sight. As a help to this end, the following brief de
scnptions of the birds will be of interest
t Among the most desirable of these feathered im.
migrants are the nightingales and thrushes. The fa
mous nightingale of poetry and song, the nachtigal of
the Germans and the srjlvia luscinia, L. of the natur.
aiists, stands foremost among the song birds of En
rope. Its soncf is almndf u j . il
nuuujr uneieu in me even
ing, tnough it ia nnnoin11 il i . it.
i a i "U4UiJQ1v uearu inrougnoui uio
aay A week or two after their arrival in the spring
s the time when they pour forth their rich notes in
the greatest volume, the males singing in rivalry,
doping to win their mates by the splendor of their
aong. tongucal In i .-n. n.. .--u
K fe caPed after mating soon dies from
Z L a ! f hia mate' When captured before
nesting, thev oftAn n,.v i . . , . , i..
ao ueiigmiui singing Diras wr
ISST Jr101 U i8 a rich brown on the upper
Part of the bodv anr? . l.-x. . '
Jrfl l n . fciojiou wmie Deiow, me cu
2r. .lh6 bird beb8 "I A-
swvtnft- "ut0 common vaneiy in u"
and power of its eong. A toft of dul