. Birds and nature . ac-quiring a great trunk, the flower-stalkgrowing up from the bare trunk while thetwo great leaves, if I may so designatethem, whip about in the breezes for a cen-tury without change, except as they frayout at the end;s. These three so dissimilarplants all had a common, not so remote,ancestor, but have grown so unlike intheir effort to adapt themselves to theirenvironment, that no casual observerwould suspect they were akin. There is so much to say about the won-derful intelligence displayed by plants intheir various activities, that a volumecould not do the subject justic
. Birds and nature . ac-quiring a great trunk, the flower-stalkgrowing up from the bare trunk while thetwo great leaves, if I may so designatethem, whip about in the breezes for a cen-tury without change, except as they frayout at the end;s. These three so dissimilarplants all had a common, not so remote,ancestor, but have grown so unlike intheir effort to adapt themselves to theirenvironment, that no casual observerwould suspect they were akin. There is so much to say about the won-derful intelligence displayed by plants intheir various activities, that a volumecould not do the subject justice. Westarted with the question. Do plants haveinstinct? We end with the question,Havethev? Rowland Watts. Still winter holds the frozen ground and fast the streams with ice are bound,Theres many a dreary week to come before the flowers bloom;Though everything were lost in snow yet Natures heart beats warm belowAnd Spring will build her palace gay on hoary Winters tomb. —George Gee. V fmi^^^m«mifim^^m* iimajtyyinw. 1 S2S THE DOVEKIE. [Alle alle.\ This little bird, often called the SeaDove, belongs to the family of auks(). The range of the Dovekie isquite limited. While the marble mur-relet, a related bird, is confined to thenorthern Pacific coastof North America,this little bird frequents only the coastand islands of the north Atlantic andeastern Arctic Oceans; in North America south in winter to New Jersey. Itbreeds only in the northern part of itsrange. It has been observed as farwest as the state of Michigan, but itsappearance there was, without doubt,accidental, for it prefers the wild seacoast, where the storm and waves bringto it an abundant supply of food. It is said to be a rare visitor on thecoasts of the British Islands and it hasbeen reported as common as far to thenorthward as Spitzbergen. In Green-land, where it is commonly found aclose companion of the black-billedauk, the native Greenlanders call theDovekie the Ice Bird, as they considerit a harbinger o
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