BIRD PARADISE 163 



It may be that one reason of their sojourning 

 with us is the abundant supply of food provided 

 for them. I notice that they find food every- 

 where in the trees. Every particle of bark on 

 the trunk and limbs seemingly hides a grub or 

 insect. The table is always set and the food is 

 always prepared. Free lunch, twelve baskets 

 and more of fragments always left. The larger 

 birds I presume would find it difficult to subsist 

 at the North during the coldest weather. I saw 

 yesterday a fine specimen of the downy wood- 

 pecker, one of the handsomest of the tribe. It 

 was a sharp cold morning and the birds generally 

 were not very lively, but downy showed no sign 

 that the weather had anything to do with his 

 welfare. He went his way merrily, putting a 

 new note of brightness into the parson's daily 

 life. 



One of the birds that comes to us every fall 

 from the North bears the name of the golden- 

 crowned kinglet. The ruby-crowned kinglet is 

 first cousin to the above named and usually ap- 

 pears in company with it. Both birds are dimin- 

 utive fellows, but make up in activity what they 

 lack in size. From what I see of them I judge 



