Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 September 1894 — A Clock of Birds. [ARTICLE]

A Clock of Birds.

The ingenuity of the scientist who established a “clock of flowers,” by planting in ngular specimens whose corro.las opened at specified hours, has been matched by a German who has composed a “clock of birds.” This is especially a night clock. The birds and hours of their songs are as follows: The chaffinch from half past one in the morning until two; the titmouse from two to half past two; the quail from half past two to three; the redstart from three to half past three, the ousel from half past three to four; the warbler from four to half past four; the marsh tit from half past lour to five; the sparrow at five. It is a curious incident, that the most celebrated of the birds, whose song has always served to mark tire hour, is missing in the list. “It is not yet near it was the nightingale, and not the lark. . . . It was the larx, the herald of the morn, no nightingale.”