JANUARY. 



Endlessly stretches the snow 



The sun stays low 



The pinched airs flow 



Through shivering tree-heads bare, 



Scant windy birds are in air 



And the lead-blue film is everywhere; 



The deeps of the woods lie near 



The footless ways are clear 



Sconced in the sleep of the year. 



Glisten and freeze on field and pond 



The lines are unbound! — 



And the gamut is stript to the ends and beyond. 



It is now that the four winds meet 

 'Tis now that the world's in my feet, — 

 Call of my heart, be fleet, be fleet! 



lo 



The snow! 



—L. H. Bailey. 



OME years ago an eminent naturalist 

 said that January was a favorable 

 time to begin the study of birds. 

 Since then the same opinion and 

 the same reasons supporting it have 

 been urged by a number of w^riters 

 of bird literature. 



I can neither agree with the opinion nor the 

 reasons assigned in support of it. It is true that 



