372 Bird -Lore 



Alan Voisey, Nambucca Street, Macksville, New South Wales. Australia. 



E. Morton Trotter, Port Macquarie, New South Wales, Australia. 



Ernest McKay, Main Drain, Koo-Wee-Rup, Victoria, Australia. 



A. H. Smout, Gladstone Road, South Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. 



James Brittingham, "Booroolla," Wee Waa, New South Wales, Australia. 



T. E. Dewar, 149 Beaconsfield Road, Croxton, Victoria, Australia. 



D. Akins, Main Street, Stawell, Victoria, Australia. 



R. H. Ellis, "Othello," 92 Story Street, Parkville, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. 



Bernard Chapman,- "Osborne House," Osborne Grove. Preston, Victoria, Australia. 



A WINTER HIKE 



One day in December, when the ground was covered with snow, Mother, 

 Victor, and I went on a hike. We went down to Song Sparrow Valley. We 

 named this valley after the Song Sparrows because there were so many there 

 last summer. 



As we were walking along the creek, a male and female Redpoll flew right 

 in front of us and lighted in the snow. The tops of their heads were red. They 

 were grayish birds and lighter beneath. The male had a rosy breast with dark 

 streaks. The female had dark streaks on her breast but no red. 



We walked up the creek a little farther and then we saw a flock of Redpolls 

 feeding on weed seeds, and how they did twitter as they fed! As we went 

 along two Blue Jays flew over the creek and we heard a Crow cawing. We 

 saw a Downy Woodpecker and we flushed a Partridge, and on the snow we 

 could see many Bob-white and Prairie Chicken tracks. 



These are the birds we have learned this winter — the Redpoll, the Evening 

 Grosbeak, the Bohemian Waxwing, and the Snow Bunting. — Lida Hodson 

 (age g years), Anoka, Minn. 



RESCUING A SLATE-COLORED JUNCO 



We had a heavy snowstorm on April 16 and 17. The snow was 3 to 4 feet 

 deep. When I went out on the porch Saturday morning I found a Slate- 

 colored Junco there. I took it into the house and gave it some crumbs and 

 water. It ate the crumbs and drank some of the water. It had no tail. The 

 next morning I let the little bird go. On Monday it came back. It sat on our 

 door-step. again. Then I put crumbs out; it took some of the crumbs and flew 

 away. — Milton Diamond (age 10 years, Form III), Milwaukee, Wis. 



[Perhaps Milton maintains a feeding-table for birds regularly now and saves the lives 

 of many birds. Birds always come back, as did this Junco, when they find food and are 

 kindly treated. Perhaps this Junco will come back to the door-step again next April. In 

 January, 1921, the Editor placed aluminum bands on the legs of three Tree Sparrows 

 which came to his food-shelf. In January of 1922 he recaptured all three of them in the 

 same Sparrow trap set below the same food-shelf. — A. A. A.] 



