The Birds’ Calendar 
rather questionable value of rarity. Its habits 
are the same as those of the common crossbill, 
except that its range is more northerly, and 
differs in appearance only in having white wing- 
bars. 
Ifa bird has any ambition to be duly ad- 
mired and appreciated, it should be wise enough 
to put in an appearance in winter or early 
spring, when it will receive the warmest wel- 
come and full measure of praise. 
9 
There are some scenes in nature that make 
a peculiarly vivid impression, and linger for 
years in the memory. An experience of this 
sort came in a morning’s walk early in March, 
after a fall of damp snow that clung to every 
trunk and branch and tiniest twig in the thickly 
wooded Ramble, presenting a spectacle that 
far surpassed all the luxuriant beauty of foliage 
and bloom that a few weeks afterward replaced 
this momentary shroud. 
Beneath a leaden sky the woods yet glowed 
with a soft, almost unearthly light, and in the 
utter stillness and solitude the long paths, over- 
arched with sweeping whitened elms, seemed 
like long aisles in a vast cathedral whose mas- 
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