212 NEWS FROM THE BIRDS. 



speaks of observing them in that State. It is 

 rather odd that some individuals should live 

 in the South all the year round, while others 

 remain both summer and winter in the North, 

 and others still migrate from one latitude to 

 another, according to the season. You can not 

 explain what it is that causes this difference, 

 nor can any one ; it is simply the natural dis- 

 position of some to remain at one place and of 

 others to travel and " see the world." We find 

 the same difference in peoj)le, some of whom 

 are proverbial " globe trotters," while others 

 are genuine " home bodies " by natural prefer- 

 ence. 



Not seldom does the cardinal whistle his 

 tunes in the winter, especially on warm, sun- 

 shiny days. On the 18th of March I heard 

 one's lilting whistle in the cemetery, and it 

 was as gay as if the songster were in the land 

 of the livino^ instead of in " the city of the 

 dead." It is hard for this gay minstrel to be 

 sedate. There is nothing doleful about his 

 manners or his music. 



The grossbeaks make their nests in bushes, 

 sometimes in the very depths of the woods and 

 often in the copses. Sometimes little effort is 

 made to conceal them. One of the most sur- 

 prising of my discoveries was the following: 



