Supplement to 



Home IRature s= Stub^ Course 



Published by the College of Agriculture of Cornell University, 

 in October, December, February and April and Entered October 

 I, 1904, at Ithaca, New York, as Second-class Matter, under 

 Act of Congress of July i5, 1894. 



ANNA BOTSFORD COMSTOCK, Editor 



NewSeries.VoI.il. ITHACA, N. Y., FEBRUARY-MARCH, 1906 No. 3 



Photographed by Verne Morton. 



BIRD STUDY 



WINTER NESTS 

 "Now comes the graybeard of the north; 

 The forests bare their rugged breasts 

 To every wind that wanders forth, 

 And in their arms, the lonely nests 

 That housed the birdlings months ago 

 Are egged with flakes of drifted snow." 



— Henry .Ibbcy. 



]\Iuch can be learned of the habits of birds by studying during the 

 winter their abandoned nests. It is the time when the trees, bare of 

 leaves, show us where the cunning architects hid their nests in the sum- 

 mer, and we may study them now without distressing the owners. 1 

 think that every one of us who carefully examines the way that a nest is 

 made, must have a feeling of real respect for its clever little builder. 



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