. The oist . rned him loose in a conservatorywith glass sides and top 9 by 18 feetin which there are many dozen plantsof all kind, and began feeding himprepared bird food such as is foundin the bird stores for soft-billed birds,the result was magical. Robin Snow-ball immediately took to bathing onceor twice a day, something he had de-clined to do while out in the yard ex-cept in very rare instances, whichwithout doubt accounted for his dirtyill kept appearance. His feathers atonce cleared up and the entire bird ex-cept the bill, legs and feet, is of ab-solutely snowy whiteness. The eyesare a p
. The oist . rned him loose in a conservatorywith glass sides and top 9 by 18 feetin which there are many dozen plantsof all kind, and began feeding himprepared bird food such as is foundin the bird stores for soft-billed birds,the result was magical. Robin Snow-ball immediately took to bathing onceor twice a day, something he had de-clined to do while out in the yard ex-cept in very rare instances, whichwithout doubt accounted for his dirtyill kept appearance. His feathers atonce cleared up and the entire bird ex-cept the bill, legs and feet, is of ab-solutely snowy whiteness. The eyesare a perfect bright pink, rather largefor a Robin. The bill, a very lightivory, and the feet and legs pinkishwhite with light yellow claws. Appar-ently this bird is perfectly normal inevery way, and well satisfied with hisquarters. It is very tame, eats fromthe hand, will come at call, and sel-dom, almost never ventured out of theconservatory, though large doubledoors continually open lead into the THE OOLOGIST 169. robin Sncwbali and His Nurse. Taken to Illustrate His Tameness —Photo by Roiidolph Danhof. 170 THE OOLOGIST dining room. He is very active in hismovements, cheery in his first thing in the morning hegreets the first riser with a continuousand lengthy volume of Robin conver-sation. He does not appear to be quiteas strong or vigorous as a normallycolored bird, otherwise I can see nodifference whatever except his color. I have referred to this bird as he,but am not certain whether RobinSnow-ball is he or she. R. M. Illinois, Nov. 27, 1922. The above was written for and pub-lished by the Illinois Audubon Societyin its 1922 annual.—R. M. B. BIRDS AMONG THE BUTTES P. B. Peabody, Blue Rapids, Kansas In The Oologist for December, 1921,I spoke, at some extent, of my manytrips to North Dakota in quest of thenests of the Yellow Rail. It may in-terest readers of our indispensablelittle magazine to learn somewhat asto other birds of high interest with
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