. Birds and nature . were in con-sonance with my sign. I had waked tothe robins song. I fell asleep to the mu-sic of rain and the clamor of wild fowl. Again my sleep was broken and rest-less. Dreams were many and length the morning dawned. Some-thing was wrong. Where was the robin ?The wind was north. The ground waswhite. Snow was already six inches blizzard of the year was on. Forthree days it raged. The wind main-tained a howling velocity. Drifts grewto the depth of six, eight and even tenfeet. Two other storms little less severefollowed within the month. March com-prehend
. Birds and nature . were in con-sonance with my sign. I had waked tothe robins song. I fell asleep to the mu-sic of rain and the clamor of wild fowl. Again my sleep was broken and rest-less. Dreams were many and length the morning dawned. Some-thing was wrong. Where was the robin ?The wind was north. The ground waswhite. Snow was already six inches blizzard of the year was on. Forthree days it raged. The wind main-tained a howling velocity. Drifts grewto the depth of six, eight and even tenfeet. Two other storms little less severefollowed within the month. March com-prehended winter. Some mathematicalcroaker claimed that the month regis-tered but three sunny days. One ofthese evidently I shared with the robinand with spring. Aristotle was right ofcourse and this is my last efifusion onthe robins song. Not one swallowmakes a summer—nor the best of signsa spring. J. V.\LL.\NCE Brown. no. FROM COL. CHI. «CAO. SCIEMCes. 556 LITTLE BLUE HERON. (Ardea caeruleaj. - r. Life-size. CnTRIBHT 1»03, BV A. W. wUUfoRD, CMICUO. THE LITTLE BLUE HERON. {Ardea caerulea.) Far up some brooks still course, whose current mines The forests blackened roots, and whose green marge Is seldom visited by human foot. The lonely heron sits, and harshly breaks The Sabbath silence of the wilderness ; And you may find her by some reedy pool, Or brooding gloomily on the time-stained rock Beside some misty and far-reaching lake. —Isaac McLellan, The Notes of the Birds. The Little Blue Heron is burdenedwith a number of common names, someof which are local and mean but little toone not resident in the district wherethey are used. It is often called the BlueEgret, and in some parts of Florida it iscalled the Bobby. The latter name is notunmeaning to those who have seen itstanding in the water, sphinx-like, pa-tiently waiting for its prey to come with-in striking distance. When resting, too,it stands l
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