THE SNOW BUNTING AND TREE 

 SPARROW 



TWO FRIENDS OF THE FARMER 



Snow Bunting 



{Fig. 57) 



F a snow flake should take the form 

 of a bird, I am sure it would be- 

 come a Snow Bunting. The white 

 in the Bunting's plumage is so con- 

 spicuous that when we see a flock 

 blown before the wind they suggest 

 a flurry of snow. The very spirit of the north 

 seems embodied in them. They not only look like 

 snow but they seem to love it. They come to us 

 with the snow in the fall and leave with it in the 

 spring to return to their summer home in the Arctic 

 regions. 



Always we see them in flocks, on plains, wide- 

 spreading fields, or along the shores of lake or sea. 

 They walk or run, and their long hind toe-nail 

 leaves a track in the snow which can be mistaken only 

 for that of the Horned Lark or Longspur. In all 



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