54 OUR SOUTHERN BIRDS 



Chantecler a lesson; he makes himself useful 

 as a husband and father, helping to incubate the 

 eggs and care for the young. 



The experiment is often tried of hatching 

 Bob-White eggs under a domestic hen, but I have 

 never seen it succeed; the attentions of so heavy 

 and clumsy a foster-mother is sure to trample the 

 life out of the little ones. It is said, besides, that 

 although young Bob-Whites are quick to scatter 

 and hide at the warning sounded when a hawk or 

 other danger is nigh, they will not rejoin a 

 mother who cannot give the return call of 

 "Whitie, Whitie," and so wander off and are 

 lost. 



In winter Bob-Whites are found in bevies, fre- 

 quenting thickets and bottom lands. At this 

 season they eat a great many of the pretty part- 

 ridge-berries that grow in rocky woods on a little 

 vine, with buds and berries of all sorts. They 

 sleep on the ground, tail to tail in a close circle, 

 with heads pointing outward, in small open 

 places among bushes or tufts of grass. 



FIELD SPABROW 



With the exception of the noisy, bullying 

 English Sparrow, all our Sparrows are innocent, 

 friendly, useful little birds. None are of brilliant 

 plumage, but some are very pleasing songsters. 

 Of them all none is prettier in ways and coloring 



