. American ornithology, for home and school . in another, not ten rods distant AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGY. 91 from it they would not touch the same species, but would feed exclusivelyon some other. This would apply to individual trees of the same apple trees, side by side in ray- yard, were frequented by many birds,one a sweeting; they feasted on its buds. The other a Gravenstine, withmuch larger buds, they seldom touched. Maple and ash buds seemed to bea favorite food with them, as were also the seeds of white and yellow pine. Many thought that their extensive budding of fruit and shade
. American ornithology, for home and school . in another, not ten rods distant AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGY. 91 from it they would not touch the same species, but would feed exclusivelyon some other. This would apply to individual trees of the same apple trees, side by side in ray- yard, were frequented by many birds,one a sweeting; they feasted on its buds. The other a Gravenstine, withmuch larger buds, they seldom touched. Maple and ash buds seemed to bea favorite food with them, as were also the seeds of white and yellow pine. Many thought that their extensive budding of fruit and shade trees woulddo a great deal of harm, but I have yet to learn of any amount of damagebeing done to any of them. Perhaps it was a benefit, for in their buddingof the trees they saved the labor of thinning the fruit. At any rate, they are and always will be a welcome visitor to me, and Ionly wish they would come our way more frequently than they do at are such a cheery sight in our yards during the long, cold New Eng-land Pine Grosbeaks. \)2 AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGY. THE RUFFED GROUSE ON SNOW C. Knowles. Deep snows cover the wintergreen patches and the last red berry hasbeen plucked from the bitter-sweet vine. What will the grouse do for thenext meal ? Several times during last winter two or three of these brown birds cameflying through the dusky twilight with that familiar whirring sound of thewoods, and alighted on the topmost branches of the door-yard apple were after apple buds and ate with great rapidity. We could hearthem feasting long after it was too dark for us to see, until they flew awayto the woods and the warmth of the hemlock trees. They returned beforedaylight for their breakfast. The grouse does not depend wholly upon buds for food, for he can walkthe snow drifts with great ease. In fall a fringe of hard bristles grows onboth sides of each toe. This bristly growth prevents the bird from sinkinginto tbe snow bank and enables it
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