22 The Ottawa Naturalist. [April 



rings is the hadrome, which consists of a few lignified vessels, the 

 only lignified elements of the root. The rings which we thus ob- 

 serve in the beet are not to be compared with the annual of a 

 stem, since they are developed in one season and since they are 

 developed independently of each o*her, while in the stem the an- 

 nual rings depend upon the cell-divisions of the same cambium. 



Brookland, D.C., January, 1906. 



A MAY MORNING WITH THE BIRDS IN NEW 



BRUNSWICK. 



By W. H. Moore. 



The morning was truly delightful. The pulse of Nature was 

 throbbing in ecstacy under the genial rays of old Sol, who had 

 seemingly neglected his charges here upon the earth for some 

 days before. The northward sway of bird migration had been at 

 a standstill for a few days, but upon this morning of May (1905) 

 the wave was fast advancing. 



A walk of about a mile was taken through woods and along 

 a highway a short distance across clearings. Birds were plentiful 

 in all places. In trees about the lawn near the house was a num- 

 ber of self-naming birds, namely, Tom-Peabody, known to the 

 scientific world as Zonotrichia albicollis. In a thickly grown 

 spruce by the side of the path, a pair of robins were building a 

 nest, and just as I walked past, one came with a great mouthful 

 ot grass. In some hazel shrubbery, nearby, were a few song-spar- 

 rows, and one Mrs. Peabody, busily engaged searching among 

 the stranded leaves. Among the young foliage of a small yellow 

 birch beside a brook w as a redstart flitting and tumbling after 

 various insects, and now and then stopping to sing his song of 

 thanksgiving for being permitted to be alive this beautiful Sunday 

 morning. Among a growth of young conifers, was a Magnolia 

 warbler singing to his mate, who was no doubt thinking what a 

 good locality that would be in which to breed. A black-and-white 

 watbler was a short distance farther along among a mixed growth 



