. The sport of bird-study; a book for young or active people . on their wings. Theywere a mixed flock of White-winged and Red Cross-bills, birds the points of whose upper and lower mandi-bles of the bill cross one another. It would appear,with this seemingly awkward arrangement, as thoughthey could not eat; yet here they were skillfully ex-tracting the seeds from the pine cones, their favoritediet. For five minutes or so I fairly devoured thoserare birds with my eager eyes. The rest of that winter I revelled in the Northernbirds, but it was not till several years afterward that Isaw any more,
. The sport of bird-study; a book for young or active people . on their wings. Theywere a mixed flock of White-winged and Red Cross-bills, birds the points of whose upper and lower mandi-bles of the bill cross one another. It would appear,with this seemingly awkward arrangement, as thoughthey could not eat; yet here they were skillfully ex-tracting the seeds from the pine cones, their favoritediet. For five minutes or so I fairly devoured thoserare birds with my eager eyes. The rest of that winter I revelled in the Northernbirds, but it was not till several years afterward that Isaw any more, so irregular are their occurrences. How-ever, they did reach us occasionally, and some years Iheld tryst with the crossbills and siskins in summerup in their Northern homes in the Maritime Provincesof Canada. One season they stayed with us very Siskins visited the larch trees in my garden inMay, and on the seventh of May I was amazed, whilelooking for birds in a pine grove, to have a flock ofWhite-winged Crossbills fly up from the ground and 160 X. v Tree Sparrow eating hay seed thrown on the snow. The happy Httle fellow (p. 105). ^^^
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