. Birds and nature . and was away. Every-day, from that time on, just at noon,the pair of them would be watching forme, and I made it a rule to put somesmall pieces of meat or bread on thesteps at that hour of the day. As soonas I retreated a little way they wouldsecure them and fly off. After they had been with me about amonth, a bluejay happened along oneday, and seeing them at their meal, in-vited himself to partake of part of camp-robbers seemed somewhatangry at this, but did not venture toremonstrate. The next day there weretwo bluejays and by the end of a weekI had two camp-robber
. Birds and nature . and was away. Every-day, from that time on, just at noon,the pair of them would be watching forme, and I made it a rule to put somesmall pieces of meat or bread on thesteps at that hour of the day. As soonas I retreated a little way they wouldsecure them and fly off. After they had been with me about amonth, a bluejay happened along oneday, and seeing them at their meal, in-vited himself to partake of part of camp-robbers seemed somewhatangry at this, but did not venture toremonstrate. The next day there weretwo bluejays and by the end of a weekI had two camp-robbers and seven blue-jays looking to me for their daily din-ners. I fed the whole company all winterand when spring came the camp-rob-bers would almost take food from myhands; in fact they seemed to look tome for protection, when eating, fromthe bluejays, who were rather overbear-ing and wanted more than their share. Whether they will visit me this win-ter I know not, but I do know that Ishould be glad to see them UBLISMER, CHICAGO 314 ,. Life-size. THE WILLOW PTARMIGAN. {Lao;optis lagopus.) C. C. M. IT has been claimed by some orni-thologists that this species ofgrouse is not to be found in thiscountry, but it is now well estab-lished that it may be found in northernportions of New Hampshire and north-ern New York. In summer it is dis-tributed throughout Arctic breeds abundantly in the valleys ofthe Rocky Mountains on the BarrenGrounds and along the Arctic , who is probably the best au-thority we have, says that the winterdress of this beautiful bird is snowwhite, with the central tail feathersblack, tipped with white. In summerthe head and neck are yellowish red,back black, barred rather finely withyellowish brown and chestnut, althoughthe most of the wings and under partsremain white as in winter. Large num-bers of the willow ptarmigan are saidin the winter to shelter in willowthickets and dwarf birches on thebanks of lakes and
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