28 NEWS FROM THE BIRDS. 



been seen so regularly as in other winters. 

 Sometimes the snowbirds were missing, then 

 the sparrow^s, and at other times both. 



One time the weather became so cold that 

 the mercury sank to nineteen degrees below 

 zero, in some places twenty-two ; but when I 

 tramped out to the woods — I had to wrap up 

 wai'm to keep from freezing — I found the 

 hardy little tree sparrows flitting about on the 

 snow as cheerily as you please, rifling the weeds 

 of their seedy treasures. They really did not 

 seem in the least to mind the bitter-cold 

 winds, and I did not see them draw their little 

 bare feet up into their feathers to keep them 

 from becoming chilblained. 



