Supplement to 



Mome IRature = 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 16, 1894. 



ANNA BOTSFORD COMSTOCK, Editor 



New Series. Vol. II. ITHACA, N. Y., APRIL-MAY, 1906 



No. 4 



Photographed by George W. Fiske. 



Anicrica)i Redstart. 



BIRD STUDY 



Winged lute that we call a bluebird, you blend in a silver strain 

 The sound of the laughing waters, the patter of spring's sweet rain, 

 The voice of the winds, the sunsliinc, the fragrance of blossoming things, 

 Ah ! you are an April poem, that God has dowered with wings ! 



— Ebcii Eugene Rexford. 



Those of us who have spent winters in the warmer coitnlries where 

 our common birds spend the cold weather, rcahze how much more in- 

 teresting these birds are wdien they come back to us after their winter 

 journey, than they are at their winter resorts. I think this is because 

 tlie birds themselves are more interested in life when they return to us. 

 They have something very important to do and their zeal and en- 

 tliusiasm -for their work is made manifest in their songs and ir their 

 actions, and even, in some cases, in the brightness of their pkimagc. 



807 



