. [Articles about birds from National geographic magazine]. Birds. Pliolo l:iy Frank AT. Clia]nnan AN 0\'EX-BIR1) LOUKIN'G OUT OF 11 !• K N]{ST As an architect, the oven-ljird is distinguished. Her unique nest is buiU on the ground of coarse grasses, weed sialics, leaves, and rootlets, and is roofed o\-er, the entrance being at one side. It thus resembles an old-fashioned Dutch oven, and its shape is the origin of its liuilder's name. tWe jjarrenness of their world, for they live in ignorance of the great store of enio\'ment which might be theirs for the asking. I ciiinit each dav memorable th
. [Articles about birds from National geographic magazine]. Birds. Pliolo l:iy Frank AT. Clia]nnan AN 0\'EX-BIR1) LOUKIN'G OUT OF 11 !• K N]{ST As an architect, the oven-ljird is distinguished. Her unique nest is buiU on the ground of coarse grasses, weed sialics, leaves, and rootlets, and is roofed o\-er, the entrance being at one side. It thus resembles an old-fashioned Dutch oven, and its shape is the origin of its liuilder's name. tWe jjarrenness of their world, for they live in ignorance of the great store of enio\'ment which might be theirs for the asking. I ciiinit each dav memorable that brought me a new friend among the birds. It was an event to be recorded in detail. .V creature which up to that moment existed for me only as a name, now became an inhabitant i:)f ni)- woods, a part of mv life. With what a new in- terest I got down my books again, ea- gerly reading ever^' item concerning this new friend—its travels, habits, and notes ; comparing the observations of others with what were now my own ! The study of birds is not restricted to any special season. Some species are al- State ijrinter, large 8vo, pp. 434. plates 100 The English Sparrow in North America, espe- cially in its Relation to Agriculture, prepared under the direction of C. Hart Merriam, by Walter B. Barrows; Bulletin No. 1, Division of Economic Ornithology and Mammalogy of the United States Department of Agriculture, 1889. The Hawks and Owls of the United States in their Relation to Agriculture, pre- pared under the direction of C. Hart Merriam, by A. K. Fisher; Bulletin No. 3, 1893. The Common Crow of the United States, by Walter B. Barrows and E. A. Schwarz ; Bul- letin No. 6, ibid., 1895. Preliminary Report on the Food of Woodpeckers, by F. E. L. Beal; Bulletin No. 7, 1805. (See also tt'aN's with us. Linig after the lea\'es haii'c fallen and the fields are Ijare and brown, wlien insect voices are hitshed, and even some mammals are sleeping their winter slee]>, the ch
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