. Bird lore . On Hearing a Winter Wren Sing in Winter By LYNN TEW SPRAGUE When wintry winds through woodlands blow And naked tree-tops shake and shiver ; While all the paths were bound in snow, And thick ice chains the merry river,One little feathered denizen,A plump and nut-brown winter wren,Sings of spring-time even there —Tsip-twis-ch-e-e-e cheerily-cheerily-dare—Who could listen and despair ? Charmed with the sweetness of his strain. My heart found cheer in winters bluster ; The leafless wood was fair again, Its ice-gems sparkled with new luster. The tiny, trembling, tinkling throatPoured
. Bird lore . On Hearing a Winter Wren Sing in Winter By LYNN TEW SPRAGUE When wintry winds through woodlands blow And naked tree-tops shake and shiver ; While all the paths were bound in snow, And thick ice chains the merry river,One little feathered denizen,A plump and nut-brown winter wren,Sings of spring-time even there —Tsip-twis-ch-e-e-e cheerily-cheerily-dare—Who could listen and despair ? Charmed with the sweetness of his strain. My heart found cheer in winters bluster ; The leafless wood was fair again, Its ice-gems sparkled with new luster. The tiny, trembling, tinkling throatPoured forth despairs sure antidote,No leafy June hears sweeter note — Tsip-twis-ch-e-e-e cheerily-cheerily-dare —The essence of unspoken CAUGHT IN THE ACT Yellow-bellied Sapsucker feeding on sap of mountain oak. Photographed from nature by Dr. Thos. S. Roberts atMinneapolis, Minn., June 20, igoi (199) How to Name the Birds STUDIES OF THE FAMILIES OF PASSERES BY FRANK M. CHAPMANFIRST PAPER DURING the past year BiRD-LoRE has published a series of articleson Birds and Seasons* which, with Suggestions for the SeasonsStudy and Suggestions for the Seasons Reading, were designed totell the student what birds he might expect to find during each monthin the year and to call his attention, in due time, to the more charac-teristic phases of bird-life as they were developed. It is now proposedto supplement these articles with a series of papers on identification. It may well be questioned whether, in view of the numerous text-books which have been especially prepared to assist beginners in namingbirds, anything can be written which will further simplify the problem ofidentification, but the receipt, almost daily, of descriptions o
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