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AMERICAN ORNJTHOLOGY 



squirming and tumbling out of the nest, though never when I was in 



sight. My friend on several successive days found the younghelpless- 



ly suspended in the bushes and nearly dead from the cold. She re- 



placed them and they always revived, but one day they had all dis- 



appeared, though not yet well fledged. Mrs. Bailey states that 



the nests are usually placed on the ground. Is it possible that this 



particular family had not 



the instinct evolved as yet 



to make them stay in a 



higher nest until able to 



fly. The nest was well built 



and deep enough. 



I have also seen the bird 



inwinteron the very south- 



ern edge of California. 



Here it is more silent and 



secretive than on its nest- 



ing grounds. 



Anna Head, 



Berkeley, 



Calif. 



Photo by Anna Head. 

 Green-tailed Towhee. 



A WINTER RAMBLE IN NOVA SCOTIA. 



];y f. K. Forest. 



El FTER the Thrushes, Warbiers and other summer visitors 

 I have gone south, and the dead leaves fall silently into the 

 I deserted nests, many true lovers of our birds are inclined 

 H to think that their forest rambles are over, not to be re- 

 ■ sumed until next year's Robin heralds the approach of 

 I spring. But he who misses the winter rambles, misses 

 ■ much of what Nature has to show, besides that supply of 

 vigor with which one finds himself filled after a walk in the erisp air 

 of a winter's morning. 



Occasionally some one comments upon the scarcity of birds in the At- 

 lantic Provinces in the winter. It is true that comparatively few birds 

 stay with us during the cold months, but the impressions made upon 

 one by meeting them in their winter haunts, seems to be more distinct 

 and to remain with one longer than those made when we are sur- 

 rounded so thickly by birds and bird voices that we cannot sometimes 

 separate the individual calls or songs in the chorus. The winter soll- 



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