BIRD PARADISE 



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make any statement concerning the place where 

 they expected to spend the winter. When they 

 push their flight northward I have the notion 

 that they find their way well up to the precincts 

 of the pole. They are chary singers and are not 

 given to any extra amount of talking. As I see 

 them they are usually in company with the 

 warblers and are so like the company they are in 

 that it is sometimes quite difficult to tell them^ 

 apart. I am told that they sometimes nest in 

 northern New York but I have the notion that 

 most of their nesting is far up in the wilds of 

 Canada. The descriptions that I have of their 

 nests are curious, the strangest being the fact 

 that they frequently put two layers of eggs in the 

 same nest. Just how they manage to hatch such 

 a number deponent saith not. Next month my 

 visitors will go on their way, finally reaching the 

 wilds of South America. Back they come in the 

 spring, repeating the journey year after year. 

 What witnesses they are to the settled order and 

 stability of all the ways of bird life. 



I have seen a few members of the junco sparrow 

 family during the past week. What bright lit- 

 tle fellows they are and what activity they show 



