448 Bird - Lore 



painted red and white where there are several nests on each of them. — Clifford 

 R. Grey (age 13 years), Lancaster, N. H. 



[Have any of our readers information to offer on this matter? Cliff or Eave Swallows, 

 let us remember, are now very rare^as compared with their former abundance in the 

 East.— A. H. W.] 



LITTLE BIRD STORIES 



THE CARDINAL 



One afternoon I was sitting on the porch when a mother Cardinal flew up in 

 a tree right near our house. I hunted in the woods and found the nest. There 

 were three eggs in it. When we came back home we saw the father Cardinal. — 

 Emily Hillyer (Grade 5A). 



THE CROW 



One day we were out in the woods. We were walking and we saw a baby 

 Crow. Then we took it in our hands and we played with it. Then it cawed and 

 some Crows came and then we let it go. — Norman Androbette (Grade 5A). 



OUR BIRDS 



We had honeysuckle near our fence. There were many birds around our 

 house. A pair of Sparrows built their nest in the vine. The mother bird flew 

 away and left the little birds there. One day I went there and looked in. I 

 found the little birds in the nest. They had very few feathers on their 

 backs. 



Later I looked into the nest again. I found the nest covered over with a big 

 spider's web. 



We took the nest from the honeysuckle and found the little birds all dead. 



What do you think killed them? — Mary Burns (Grade 5B) . 



[Lack of food, if the parents met with an accident, may have caused the birds' death, 

 or possibly some form of bird disease due to parasites, but more likely, they died of 

 starvation. — A. H. W.] 



THE RABBIT 



One day when I was out in the woods I saw a young rabbit. It crossed 

 the path in front of me. I followed it and saw it go into a hole in the ground 

 under a stump. I watched there a little while and saw another one come and 

 go into the same hole. — Thomas Tully (Grade 5A). 



[The family of hares and rabbits has at least twenty different species in North 

 America. Some make burrows, others sleep on the flat ground, while others make 

 "forms" in herbage and there squat to rest, sleeping with eyes open, it is said. They 

 may be found in marshes, dense swamps and canebrakes, in woodland and dry, briery 

 places or even in prairie wastes and sterile deserts, or in alpine areas. — A. H. W.] 



