A Winter Cardinal 



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BY ROWLAND EVANS, JR. AND ALLEN EVANS, JR. 



OU may be interested to hear of a beautiful Cardinal -bird seen at 

 our place at Haverford, a 



few miles outside Philadel- 

 phia, February i8, 19 and 20, 1903. 

 He would appear on our piazza 

 roof on every one of these morn- 

 ings to get the seed and bread 

 we threw out for the snowbirds. 

 He would stay under our window 

 for several minutes. He was 

 bigger than a good -sized Robin 

 Redbreast. He was only seen 

 while the snow was on the 

 ground. He was all a bright red, 

 with a black ring round his throat 

 .and at the base of his bill. He 

 made a chirpy sound like tsip. 

 His bill was a bright red. 



We enclose a photograph of 

 bim, which we took of him 

 through the window. 



The Brown Creeper 



BY EARLE STAFFORD (Aged 14 years) 



Cloaked in brown is he, 



That mite on yonder tree — 



His cheerful cry, as he climbs on high. 



Comes from the pines to me. 



Not once in his busy course stops he. 



To talk with Nuthatch or Chickadee, 



But continues his searching midst wind and snow, 



Till the sharp cold days of winter go; 



Then back to the northland — back to his home — 



To the range of the bears, where the caribou roam; 



And there with his mate — the one he loves best — 



JBehind some strip of bark they'll build them a nest. 



He'll help feed the young birds and keep away thieves. 



Till the rich gold of fall comes and warm summer leaves. 



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