LOVE-MAKING AND HOME-BUILDING 



my brush-heaps as a possible building-site. And 

 the junco with the injured wing seems also favor- 

 ably impressed with the advantages of the shelter, 

 and inspects it frequently in company with an 

 able-bodied junco lady, whom he has evidently 

 persuaded to abandon foreign travel and induced 

 to settle down with him as a grove permanent. 

 This is indeed an innovation, but I can fancy how 

 a bird of impaired wing-power would appreciate 

 the advantages of an all-the-year residence such 

 as the grove affords. No doubt visions of north- 

 ern forest freshness and coolness appeal powerful- 

 ly to these little creatures one the victim of a 

 misfortune, the other evidently an exile for love's 

 sake but I am certain that no time will be 

 wasted in useless regrets or foolish complaints. 

 Birds are Spartans and philosophers. 



The white-crowns, although registered as rare 

 winter migrants, still patronize the table d'hote, 

 and are among the most confiding of my visitors. 

 Great English-sparrow disciplinarians are these 

 same sturdy little fellows of the handsome head- 

 dresses. Indeed, to the frequent and vigorous 

 feather-tweakings hair-pulling equivalents, no 

 doubt which the white-crowns administer im- 

 partially to all English-sparrow habitues of the 



