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and day by day watched the maturing of love and 

 hope and faith till the little ones were fledged. 

 Then came a sad day when the mother bird was 

 killed, and again a sadder still when the sole pro- 

 vider of the hungry brood was taken. Who 

 should provide for the four little gaping mouths ? 

 Must the little ones perish also? Their pitiful 

 cries could be heard in the house, and my sister 

 tried to devise some way to reach the nest and 

 relieve them. When lo! she was anticipated. 

 The young had been heard, and a pitiful heart 

 had responded. ... A cedar -bird came before 

 the day closed and adopted them, fed them con- 

 stantly for more than a week; brought them 

 safely from the nest and taught them to fly as 

 though they had been her own." What an ex- 

 ample these birds could set the kingbird and 

 least flycatcher ! 



XXXII. 



CHEVVINK ; TOWHEE. 



THE sight of a chewink, even in migration, is 

 a rare pleasure in the Adirondack region. One 

 October morning when the orchard trees and 

 evergreens are astir with sparrows, a big umber- 

 brown bird comes out from the low branches of a 

 Norway spruce, and, showing white tail feathers 

 as she flies, hides away among the low spreading 



