. Bird lore . rt Linton, Moorestown,N. J. ; Clara T. Magee, Moorestown, N. J. ; George S. Mac Nider, Chapel Hill, N. C. ;Barnard Powers, Melrose, Mass. : Elden Smith, Milville, Mass. ; Lydia Sharpless,Haverford, Pa.—Ed. A February Walk in Central Park, New York • ■• BY FLOYD C. NOBLE (Ageil 14 ) N February 18, 1899, my friend and I started out•bird-hunting. as usual, in the Ramble, CentralPark. It was during the comparatively warm spellafter the blizzard of the 12th, and the preceding zeroweather. On the way we saw a Starling, perched highon a building, trying to sing. On entering the P
. Bird lore . rt Linton, Moorestown,N. J. ; Clara T. Magee, Moorestown, N. J. ; George S. Mac Nider, Chapel Hill, N. C. ;Barnard Powers, Melrose, Mass. : Elden Smith, Milville, Mass. ; Lydia Sharpless,Haverford, Pa.—Ed. A February Walk in Central Park, New York • ■• BY FLOYD C. NOBLE (Ageil 14 ) N February 18, 1899, my friend and I started out•bird-hunting. as usual, in the Ramble, CentralPark. It was during the comparatively warm spellafter the blizzard of the 12th, and the preceding zeroweather. On the way we saw a Starling, perched highon a building, trying to sing. On entering the Park wesaw a White-throated Sparrow. I have seen this speciesmore times than any other this month — of course, except-ing the common nearing our hunting-grounds, we heard the familiar tn-c-cof a Brown Creeper, and soon discovered the little fellow hard atwork, as usual. A little later we came upon the beautiful Cardinal,with his two wives. It is a fact that there are one male and two (57). 58 Bird - Lore females, though probably only one is his real mate. He does not,however, appear to be partial to either. Further on we found]what we were chiefly looking for — a flockof lively little Chickadees. I found that I had only a very smallsupply of hazelnuts with me, but I made the best of them. Therewas a good deal of snow on the ground, which made the Chickadeesunusually tame — being hungry. They would light on our hands,inspect the pieces of crushed nut, there, knock off the ones that didnot suit them, and finally fly off with one — usually the largest. Wesoon began to recognize separate birds, and gave them names ; suchas Buffy, Pretty, etc. Then our attention was attracted by thequeer noise made by the Nuthatch, and this trunk-crawling friend ofours appeared. We think that continued close inspection of tree-trunks has made him near-sighted, because when you throw him apiece of nut he generally just gazes at it, grunts a little, and thenlooks at you aga
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