StNicholas [serial] . TINGS SHOWER-BATH A few days ago I came across a little bird whoseactions aroused my curiosity and led me to aninteresting discovery. It was an indigo buntingnear the top of a small birch-tree. He wasmaking a great nutter about something which fora while I failed to make out. He would dartunder the leaves as if in pursuit of a very livelybug; then he would stand for a moment, fluffingout his feathers like a bird taking a bath undera fountain. Oh, that was it! A bath in thedew which his fluttering shook from the leaves!Now I saw clearly just how he did it. But hardlyhad I
StNicholas [serial] . TINGS SHOWER-BATH A few days ago I came across a little bird whoseactions aroused my curiosity and led me to aninteresting discovery. It was an indigo buntingnear the top of a small birch-tree. He wasmaking a great nutter about something which fora while I failed to make out. He would dartunder the leaves as if in pursuit of a very livelybug; then he would stand for a moment, fluffingout his feathers like a bird taking a bath undera fountain. Oh, that was it! A bath in thedew which his fluttering shook from the leaves!Now I saw clearly just how he did it. But hardlyhad I made out what he was about when hesuddenly flew away. He did not go far, however; so I walked asnear as I dared to the little birch he had flownto and there I watched him for several would soon shake all the dew from theslender branch he stood on; then he would fly toanother until his feathers seemed well drenched,whereupon he flew as nicely as you please to ahigher bough and proceeded to dress his feathers. A BATH IN THE DROPS FROM THE LEAVES. in the early sunlight. I imagine this was a dailycustom with the bird and that, being now on thelookout, we shall find many a bird giving himselfsuch a shower-bath. Edmund J. Sawyer. «9io.] NATURE AND SCIENCE FOR YOUNG FOLKS A CROWS NEST ON A CHURCH SPIRE A GIANT PUFFBALL 1037 A friend of St. Nicholas, while recently travel- The giant puffball is an edible mushroom, and aing in England, saw this crows nest on a church single good-sized one furnishes a lot of good
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