230 CITIZEN BIRD 



I tried several times to lure or drive them into the barn 

 with the Juncos, but they would not go. Finally, one 

 evening Avhen I shut the cliickens up, Avhat did these 

 Quails do but run into the hen-house with the others 

 and remain as the guests of our good-natured Cochins 

 until spring ! 



" I well remember how happy I was when grand- 

 mother gave me half a doUar and told me to go over 

 to the mill and buy a bag of grain sweepings for my 

 'boarders'; how angry I was with the miller when he 

 said, ' Those Quails'U be good eatin' when they're fat ' ; 

 and how he laughed when I shouted, ' It's onl}^ canni- 

 bals that eat w]) their visitors ! ' " 



The Slate-colored Junco 



Length about six inches. 



Dark slate color; throat and breast slate-gray; belly and side 

 tail-feathers white; beak pinkish-white. 



A Citizen of Xorth America, nesting in the northern tier of 

 States and northward, and also on high mountains as far south as 

 Georgia. 



A Tree Trapper, Seed Sower, and Weed Warrior, according to 

 season. 



THE SONG SPARROW 

 (Every One's Darling) 



" This Sparrow, who guides you to his name by the 

 dark spot on the breast as clearly as the Peabody-bird 

 does by his white cravat, is every one's bird and every 

 one's darling," said the Doctor, as if he were speaking 

 of a dear friend. 



*' When you have learned his many songs, his pretty 

 sociable ways, and have seen his cheerfulness and pa- 



