. St. Nicholas [serial]. n here a few years ago. Its breast was red, and ithad two black spots on its back. The rest of its bodywas perfectly white. Its mate was a common were here one summer, and it is not known whatbecame of them. The white robin was quite nest was in a tree across the street from theschool-house, and every day people came to see thewhite robin. Your interested reader, Clara Stutz. what is a snowbird? Riga, N. St. Nicholas : I have seen, a number oftimes, flocks of birds that people call snowbirds. Theyare a little larger than the English sparrow
. St. Nicholas [serial]. n here a few years ago. Its breast was red, and ithad two black spots on its back. The rest of its bodywas perfectly white. Its mate was a common were here one summer, and it is not known whatbecame of them. The white robin was quite nest was in a tree across the street from theschool-house, and every day people came to see thewhite robin. Your interested reader, Clara Stutz. what is a snowbird? Riga, N. St. Nicholas : I have seen, a number oftimes, flocks of birds that people call snowbirds. Theyare a little larger than the English sparrow and havewhite breasts. They are not very wild, but let you getquite near them, and then run very fast. Are they adistinct bird in themselves, or a bird that stays here allthe year, but whose plumage changes in winter ? Thereis a large flock, where I go to school, of about threehundred, which we see quite often. Richard Church, Jr. General or family names are in most commonuse because they save seeing and 173 The term snowbird is applied to a vari-ety of birds associated with the snow. I have•heard the young folks, after pelting others withsnow, say jokingly : You re pretty-looking snowbirds ! So you see there s almost nolimit to the application of the word the snowbird—that is, the best-knownbird to which the word is applied—is the junco{Jiuico hiemalis). This is probably the bird towhich you refer as havinga white breast. Perhapsit would be better to call itgray. The under side iswhite. The head,neck,andupper parts are dark slate-color ; therefore this bird issometimes called the blacksnowbird. The outer tail- co feathers are white. Our so-called white snowbird is thesnowflake, snow-bunting, etc. (Plectro-phenax nivalis). These pretty little birds are,as Thoreau calls them, the true spirits of the^- snow-storm, because they are closely asso-ciated with the drivingsnow. They are of a soiled white under-neath. The upper partsare darker, w
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