. Outing. THE CHICKADEE, WITH HIS THE NUTHATCH IS AN ACROBAT OF SKILL. cedar birds and purple finches also flock,as do the crossbills and the pine gros-beak, and to some extent the tree spar-rows, j uncos, and meadow larks, instraggling parties. Some of the more Northern birdsare very irregular in their appearances,sometimes not coming as far south asMassachusetts for years at a is notably true of the pine gros-beak, the two crossbills, and the coming is thought to dependmore upon the food supply than on theweather. The winters when they ap-pear are haile
. Outing. THE CHICKADEE, WITH HIS THE NUTHATCH IS AN ACROBAT OF SKILL. cedar birds and purple finches also flock,as do the crossbills and the pine gros-beak, and to some extent the tree spar-rows, j uncos, and meadow larks, instraggling parties. Some of the more Northern birdsare very irregular in their appearances,sometimes not coming as far south asMassachusetts for years at a is notably true of the pine gros-beak, the two crossbills, and the coming is thought to dependmore upon the food supply than on theweather. The winters when they ap-pear are hailed with delight by birdlovers. When we see in the evergreens orshade trees of the garden a flock of graybirds about the size of a robin, we atonce surmise that the pine grosbeak hascome. They feed a great deal on buds,ash, and maple seeds, and frozen crossbills live largely on the seedswhich they extract .from the variousevergreen cones—spruce, pine, and hem-lock. Their mellow call notes, uttered 628 THE OUTING MAGAZINE as they fly f
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