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AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGY. 



squirming and tumbling out of the nest, though never when I was in 

 sight. My friend on several successive days found the young helpless- 

 ly suspended in the bushes and nearly dead from the cold. She re- 

 placed them and they always revived, but one -day they had all dis- 

 appeared, though not yet well fledged. Mrs. Bailey states that 

 the nests are usually placed on the ground. Is it possible that this 



particular family had not 

 the instinct evolved as yet 

 to make them stay in a 

 higher nest until able to 

 fly. The nest was well built 

 and deep enough. 



I have also seen the bird 

 in winter on the very south- 

 ern edge of California. 

 Here it is more silent and 

 secretive than on its nest- 

 ing grounds. 



Anna Head, 



Berkeley, 

 Calif. 



Photo by Anna Head. 

 Green-tailed Townee. 



A WINTER RAMBLE IN NOVA SCOTIA. 



By C- E. Forest. 



FTER the Thrushes, Warblers and other summer visitors 

 have gone south, and the dead leaves fall silently into the 



a deserted nests, many true lovers of our birds are inclined 



to think that their forest rambles are over, not to be re- 

 sumed until next year's Robin heralds the approach of 

 spring. But he who misses the winter rambles, misses 

 much of what Nature has to show, besides that supply of 

 vigor with which one finds himself filled after a walk in the crisp air 

 of a winter's morning. 



Occasionally some one comments upon the scarcity of birds in the At- 

 lantic Provinces in the winter. It is true that comparatively few birds 

 stay with us during the cold months, but the impressions made upon 

 one by meeting them in their winter haunts, seems to be more distinct 

 and to remain with one longer than those made when we are sur- 

 rounded so thickly by birds and bird voices that we cannot sometimes 

 separate the individual calls or songs in the chorus. The winter soli- 



