124 Birds Every Child Should Know 



are especially useful when birds are migrating; 

 without them, many stragglers from the flocks 

 might get lost. Juncos, who are extremely 

 sociable birds, except when nesting, need help 

 in keeping together. A crisp, frosty 'tsip 

 call note signifies alarm and away flies the 

 flock. They are quiet, unassuming visitors, 

 modest in manner and in dress; but how we 

 should miss them from the winter landscape! 



SNOWFLAKE 



In the northern United States and Canada, 

 it is the snowfiake or snow bunting, a sparrowy 

 little bird with a great deal of white among its 

 rusty brown feathers that is the familiar winter 

 visitor. Instead of hopping, like most of its 

 tribe, it walks over the frozen fields and 

 rarely perches higher than a bush or fence rail, 

 for it comes very near being a groimd bird. 

 Delighting in icy blasts and snow storms, flocks 

 of these irrepressibly cheerful little foragers 

 fatten on a seed diet picked up where other 

 birds would starve. 



AMERICAN GOLDFINCH 



Called also: Black-winged Yellow-bird; Thistle 

 Bird; Lettuce Bird; Wild Canary 



Have you a garden gay with marigolds, sun- 

 flowers, coreopsis, zinnias, cornflowers, and gail- 



