CURIOUS SPECKS ON 

 THE SNOW 





February gth 



INTER weeds and their wind-blown grist 

 for the hungry birds are responsible for 

 many curious specks on the snow, as we 

 observed last week, but there are two 

 forms of peppered snow which the win- 

 ter walker occasionally meets with, and 

 which have plainly no connection with weed or 

 copse, for they are found on the lawn, or in the 

 open meadow, or in the woods where no weeds are 

 seen above the snow, and occasionally in such quan- 

 tities as to cause some wonder about their source. 

 There are those queer tiny mimic birds, for in- 



