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and day by day watched the maturing of love and 
hope and faith till the little ones were fledged. 
Then came a sad day when the mother bird was 
killed, and again a sadder still when the sole pro- 
vider of the hungry brood was taken. Who 
should provide for the four little gaping mouths ? 
Must the little ones perish also? Their pitiful 
erles could be heard in the house, and my sister 
tried to devise some way to reach the nest and 
relieve them. When lo! she was anticipated. 
The young had been heard, and a pitiful heart 
had responded. ... A cedar-bird came before 
the day closed and adopted them, fed them con- 
stantly for more than a week; brought them 
safely from the nest and taught them to fly as 
though they had been her own.” What an ex- 
ample these birds could set the kingbird and 
least flycatcher ! 
XXXIT. 
CHEWINK ; TOWHEE. 
THE sight of a chewink, even in migration, is 
arare pleasure in the Adirondack region. One 
October morning when the orchard trees and 
evergreens are astir with sparrows, a big umber- 
brown bird comes out from the low branches of a 
Norway spruce, and, showing white tail feathers 
as she flies, hides away among the low spreading 
