Iparablse Circle 



muscadine-vine which drapes the veranda. 

 From the shores of Okeechobee and the 

 brakes of Louisiana to middle Indiana I 

 have found it common and resident, not 

 shyer than the blue jay or the brown 

 thrush, living on fair terms with the cat-bird 

 and the towhee bunting. In times of deep 

 and long-continued snow, I often place 

 cracked nuts and broken bread of corn- 

 meal on the window-sills of my study in 

 order to give the birds something to live 

 on. Cardinal grosbeaks, blue jays, two 

 or three species of woodpecker, and the 

 crested titmouse soon find the feast, and 

 are not backward about accepting its com- 

 fort. The grosbeak eats voraciously upon 

 such an occasion, apparently more pressed 

 by hunger than the other birds, and I 

 suspect that our midwinter is often very 

 hard on him; but my residence in the 

 South at that season has interfered with 

 observation. 



The rose-breasted grosbeak is not resi- 

 dent, but when he comes up from the far 

 South in spring he is like a torch in our 

 woods. These splendid creatures are be- 



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