and forests coated with transparent ice, and icicles hanging from boughs and crackling in the wind ...

and sides and peaks of mountains ...

and pasturage sweet and free as savannah or upland or prairie ...

with flights and songs and screams that answer those of the wild pigeon and high-hold and orchard-oriole and coot and surf-duck and red-shouldered-hawk and fish-hawk and white ibis and Indian-hen and cat-owl and water-pheasant and qua-bird and pied-sheldrake and blackbird and mockingbird and buzzard and condor and night-heron and eagle.

To him the hereditary countenance descends both mother's and father's.