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the small '^Vliite Moccasin Flower ; C . parvifloriim , Salisb., 

 the small Yellow Moccasin Flower ; C. piibcsccns, Willd., 

 with much larger j^ellow flowers ; C. arictimim, R. Br., the 

 Ram'shead Moccasin Flower, with red and whitish veiny 

 lip; C. acatde. Ait., the stemless Moccasin F'lower, with 

 leaves on the ground and a large rose-purple flower on an 

 erect scape, sometimes nearly a foot high ; and C. spec- 

 labile, Sw. lyast summer, on a recreation vacation spent 

 in the Jack pine forest in Wadena county, Minnesota, 

 while crossing a tamarack swamp, a nook where myriads 

 of the latter moccasin flower, with most showy large flow- 

 ers of mingled white and pink-purple color, was encoun- 

 tered. 



I was filled with joy and admiration. Grown here in 

 the heart of the forest, a handful of these forwarded to my 

 pet niece back home, indeed would prove interesting, how- 

 ever that venture I did not take, lest I violate the laws of 

 that noble Wild Flower Preservation Society of America. 



Jackson, Minn. 



Bird-Feeding Time. 



BY EDWARD J. BURNHAM, 



Although the snow lay deep and the weather continued 

 steadily cold for a long time last winter, the great abun- 

 dance of sumach seeds, of birch seeds, mullein seeds and 

 poison-ivy berries and the like that remained when spring 

 came, indicated that the winter birds had not suffered from 

 lack of food — at least not so much as in many milder win- 

 ters, when there are periods of sleet, sometimes prolonged 

 for days. 



The impression that the birds were not suffering so se- 

 verely as in many previous winters changed to conviction 

 after repeated examination of nature's feeding-troughs — 



