ers roost in trees ; the ground-builders upon the 

 ground. I have seen our chickadee and woodpeck- 

 er enter, late in the day, the cavities in decaying 

 limbs of trees. I have seen the oriole dispose of her- 

 self for the night on the end of a maple branch where 

 her " pendent bed and procreant cradle " was begun 

 a few days later. In walking through the summer 

 fields in the twilight, the vesper sparrow or the song 

 sparrow will oft- 

 en start up from 



almost beneath ^ - 



one's feet. It is 

 said that the 

 snow - bunting 

 will plunge be- 

 neath the snow 

 and pass the 

 night there. The 

 ruffed grouse 

 often does this, 

 but the swallows 

 seem to be an 

 exception to 

 this rule. I 

 have seen a vast 

 cloud of swifts 

 take up their 



lodging for the night in a tall, unused chimney; but 

 the barn swallows and the cliff and white-bellied 



2 XV 



Faymgdoji Chiwck. 



