. American ornithology, for home and school . uliar habit of hop-ping up the tree, and. especially, in the way they backed down to the would fly to the tree, alight some distance above the suet, and backdown by short hops to the place where a good breakfast awaited them. Theysometimes stay immovable near the suet for nearly ten minutes. The Nut-hatches also do this; one fell into this peculiar sleep upon my window-sillwhile I opened the window and touched him. It is peculiar how well the birdscan tell tiaie. They come at about the same time for weeks in succession toget their meals.
. American ornithology, for home and school . uliar habit of hop-ping up the tree, and. especially, in the way they backed down to the would fly to the tree, alight some distance above the suet, and backdown by short hops to the place where a good breakfast awaited them. Theysometimes stay immovable near the suet for nearly ten minutes. The Nut-hatches also do this; one fell into this peculiar sleep upon my window-sillwhile I opened the window and touched him. It is peculiar how well the birdscan tell tiaie. They come at about the same time for weeks in succession toget their meals. Now that the cold weather is over, the birds do not come so often. Theyhave not eaten out of my hand since the middle of April. I shall keep asmall supply of food upon the restaurant all the year round, so that the birdsmay be sure of something, whenever their natural supply fails, as it oftendoes, after several days of rain. I hope the birds will be as tame next win-ter as they were this and I shall do my best to see that they are well The Restaurant. 14 AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGY. A CHRISTMAS RAMBLE. (unsigned.) I passed the Christmas holidays at my home at Greenport, Long Island,and I took the time on Christmas morning to once more wander over thefields and through the woods, which were so familiar to me a few years weather was threatening rain, hut I did not wish to miss the trip, so Iprepared for wet weather, and started about 8:30 a. m., with note book andfield glass. The day was hardly an ideal one for seeing birds, but the fol-lowing will show that I was not entirely unsuccessful. I had gone but a short distance, after leaving the house, when from aboveme came the pick, pick, pick, of a Woodpecker. Looking up, I discoveredtwo hairy woodpeckers on an upper limb. Certainly this was a good begin-ning. Soon after I passed by a long hedge of cedar trees I heard the familiarnotes of that fluffy little bunch of feathers, the Chickadee. There were someten or twelve of t
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