. American ornithology, for home and school . seventeen specimens are known, most of thembeing taken in the Everglades of Florida and in Ontario, have been taken in several other states andeone is recordedfrom Massachusetts. These were formerly considered by many, andprobably a few still do, to be simply a color phase of the commonLeast Bittern, but nearly everyone now concedes it to be a distinctspecies. Very little is known of their habits, for all who have observedthem have been naturalists whose only desire was to add them asspecimens to their collection. They are found
. American ornithology, for home and school . seventeen specimens are known, most of thembeing taken in the Everglades of Florida and in Ontario, have been taken in several other states andeone is recordedfrom Massachusetts. These were formerly considered by many, andprobably a few still do, to be simply a color phase of the commonLeast Bittern, but nearly everyone now concedes it to be a distinctspecies. Very little is known of their habits, for all who have observedthem have been naturalists whose only desire was to add them asspecimens to their collection. They are found in the same places, and,as far as is known, their habits do not differ at all from those of thecommon kind. Mr. C. W. Crandall has a set of five eggs which are supposed tobelong to this species. They were taken on the Caloosahatchee Riverin Florida. They do not differ in size or coloration from many ofthose of the common Least Bittern. The nest was made of grass andrushes placed in the cane, two feet above the water. 142 AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGY. LKAST rUTTEKN, CORY MITTKKX, AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGY. 143 NEW YEARS WITH THE BIRDS. By Norman O. Foerster. Stern winter has once more settled into the dreary succession of bliz-zards, heavy snowfalls, thaws, and cloudless zero weather. To the or-dinary observer, nature never seemed so barren. Yet the country inthe season of short days is by no means deserted. There are manybirds here yet, more than in the hot days of August when they weremoulting. Even in the city, bird life other than of the English Sparrow still ex-ists. We need but listen acutely at a weed-grown lot or house site tohear the chip, chip of the Song Sparrow, generally a contented chat-ter; but, if we intrude this is augmented to a highly excited late winter, sometime in February, although the season may showno sign of relentance, his broken spring song will come through thecold mist. Often in intimate companionship with this Sparrow of the splashedbreast, ar
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