. Birds and nature . e ditty at short intervals for halfan hour or more. This song is almostthe same as the eastern towhee. The towhees obtain a large share oftheir food by scratching among the fallenleaves that lie upon the ground under theunderbrush that they frequent. TheArctic Towhee will respond to a whistledcall, though it is not as inquisitive as theeastern species. Its nest is placed on the ground in aslight depression scratched out by thebird and is usually under the protectingshadows of shrubs. The nest, the rim ofwhich is flush with the ground, isstrongly built of bark strips, blade
. Birds and nature . e ditty at short intervals for halfan hour or more. This song is almostthe same as the eastern towhee. The towhees obtain a large share oftheir food by scratching among the fallenleaves that lie upon the ground under theunderbrush that they frequent. TheArctic Towhee will respond to a whistledcall, though it is not as inquisitive as theeastern species. Its nest is placed on the ground in aslight depression scratched out by thebird and is usually under the protectingshadows of shrubs. The nest, the rim ofwhich is flush with the ground, isstrongly built of bark strips, blades ofdry grass and usually lined with yellowstraw. MOOSEWOOD. How its lively and airy branches swayThis beautiful, sunshiny April day!Now its opening leaves our senses cheer,And its delicate rose-colored buds appear. Grand in its solitude near the dark plain, I visit this old Striped Maple again; For many a season unchanged it has stood As if guarding the sugar-camp there in the wood ! —George Bancroft Griffith. 158. FROM COL. CHI. ACAD. SCIENCES. 563 TOWHEE, (Pipilo maculatus arcticus). ■• r, Life-size. coPYPiflHT leoa, ar a. w. mumford, cHrcAso. WHEN SPRING COMES. (IN INDIANA.) The time of the singing of birds hascome, said a great singer years ago. Tjhe time of the singing of birds hascome, whispers the south wind as heunbars the rivers and streams. In this latitude of 40 degrees north, ar-riving as they do just as the snow meltsand ice breaks up, when the first warmdays are here, our song birds are pecu-liarly welcome. Birds of winter are veryinteresting, and I have no better friendsthan they are, but their songs are mostlyreduced to call notes and they are toobusy with the question of a living to in-dulge in the complex life of spring andsummer. When the weather has been cold forweeks, pond and brook ice botmd, snowdeep in the woods or piled in great driftsalong the fences, it gives a feeling ofrenewed life to see the ground appearonce more and the streams rip
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