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in a notebook under a suitable heading, and at the end of ten years you will have an 

 interesting collection of facts to show for your care in recording what you have seen. — 

 A. H. W.] 



BOB-WHITE 



Bob-white is a well-known bird in this country. He is called the Partridge. 

 The way he gets his name Bob-white is by his merry note, 'Bob-white, Bob- 

 white.' 



The Bob-white is a well-known bird at my home. I have seen many nests 

 full of eggs there, and I watched for the little ones to hatch. They are the 

 dearest little things. They do not stay in the nest like other birds, but are 

 like little chickens. 



People kill many of them, but I think it is very cruel. They are of much use 

 to the farmer, getting the worms from his crops. Bob-white is very proud, and 

 wants every one to know his name. He stays the whole year with us. In the 

 summer Bob-whites go in pairs, and in the winter they go in flocks, to keep 

 warm. — Albert Adrian (aged 11), Fifth Grade, Herndon, Va. 



[Anyone who has had the pleasure of accidentally flushing a brood of Bob-white 

 chicks knows how charming the tiny sprites are and how rapidly they vanish in the 

 grass ! It is difficult to catch even one for an instant, though there may seem to be a 

 half dozen at least around one's very feet and more scattering in all directions. As winter 

 approaches let each bird-lover strive to locate coveys of Bob- white and supply them with 

 food during the coldest weather. — A. H. W.] 



THE MAGPIE 



When I lived in Wyoming, I learned about the Magpie. It is a small bird 

 with a long tail, it is about a foot and a half long from the head to the end 

 of the tail. It has only two colors, they are white and black. 



It lives about the trees at the barn or along a stream. It has the largest 

 nest of any bird I have ever seen, about three feet high. 



The nest is shaped like an egg, and it is solid all over, except a place in the 

 center large enough for the bird to get in. The hole where it gets in is on the 

 east or south side, so that the wind can't get in so hard. 



[Only a few of our readers probably have had the good fortune to study the American 

 Magpie in its native haunts, and fewer yet, the Yellow-billed Magpie whose range is 

 more restricted. The above description is very welcome, therefore, and especially such 

 notes as the location of the opening of the nest with reference to the wind. — A. H. W.] 



