78 BIRDS' NESTS. 



another climate that suited it better. Every 

 bird nay every insect may teach us a useful 

 lesson, namely, to think that the happiest lot 

 in life is the one which God has assigned to 

 ourselves : that is the real way to be content." 



"And does the snow-bunting stay in the 

 Arctic regions all the year round ?" 



" No/' said Mr. Miller, " though it has often 

 been seen flying about far within the line of 

 never-melting ice, it obtains its food further to 

 the south, where it builds its nest among loose 

 stones, and in the crevices of rocks. An Arctic 

 voyager, Captain Lyons, found a nest of 

 dry grass, neatly lined with deer's hair and a 

 few feathers, in the bosom of the corpse of an 

 Esquimaux child. Captain Parry also found 

 one among some drift timber lying on the 

 beach; it contained four young birds, and 

 though the sailors sat down to breakfast within 

 three or four feet of the nest, the old birds 

 frequently came and fed their little ones with 

 grubs. In the winter, when the country for 



