NOTES 



CHICK, D.D. 



Penthestes atricapillus is the name men have given the bird who 

 calls himself the ''Chickadee." 



The Bird (Beebe), page 186. ''The next time you see a wee 

 chickadee, calling contentedly and happily while the air makes 

 you shiver from head to foot, think of the hard-shelled frozen in- 

 sects passing down his throat, the icy air entering lungs and air- 

 sacs, and ponder a moment on the wondrous little laboratory con- 

 cealed in his mite of a body, which his wings bear up with so little 

 effort, which his tiny legs support, now hopping alone a branch, 

 now suspended from some wormy twig. 



" Can we do aught but silently marvel at this alchemy? A little 

 bundle of muscle and blood, which in this freezing weather can 

 transmute frozen beetles and zero air into a happy, cheery little 

 Black-capped Chickadee, as he names himself, whose trustfulness 

 warms our hearts! 



"And the next time you raise your gun to needlessly take a 

 feathered life, think of the marvellous little engine w^hich your 

 lead will stifle forever; lower your weapon and look into the clear 

 bright eyes of the bird whose body equals yours in physical perfec- 

 tion, and whose tiny brain can generate a sympathy, a love for its 

 mate, which in sincerity and unselfishness suffers little when com- 

 pared with human affection." 



Bird Studies with a Camera (Chapman), pages 47-61. 



HandhooU of Nature-Study (Comstock), pages 66-68. 



Nature Songs and Stories (Creighton), pages 3-5. 



American Birds (Finley), pages 15-22. 



Winter (Sharp), chapter vi. 



Educational Leaflet No. 61. (National Association of Audubon 

 Societies.) 



This story was first pubHshed in the Progressive Teacher, 

 December, 1920. 



THE FIVE WORLDS OF LARIE 



Larus argentatus, the Herring Gull. 



Larie's "policeman," like Ardea's "soldier," is usually called a 

 "warden." No thoughtful or informed person can look upon 



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