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Entered as second-class matter May 16, 1904 at Appleton, Wis., under the act of Congress of Mar. 3, ’79. 
YOL IX.. 
FEBRUARY, 1907. 
No 8. 
Winter Birds for Waysiders. 
Winter is here, but have our little 
friends, the birds, entirely deserted us? 
No, the chill winds, the flurries of snow, 
the bare, shivering trees, have not 
daunted a few brave spirits hid in soft, 
warm coats of feathers. Most of these 
birds are merely visitors from the frozen 
north, which they have left, not because 
of the cold, hut because their food is 
there buried under deep drifts of snow. 
Here even in winter there is plenty for 
them to eat and we will find them a 
sturdy, cheerful lot and well worth our 
j acquaintance. On some bright, sunny 
morning let us choose some spots where 
we think the birds will find both food 
and shelter. Let us explore carefully 
every clump of evergreens, for the heavy 
thick branches of these trees make warm 
nooks and in the crevices of the sticky 
bark are hidden here and there the eggs 
of insects. The cones contain seeds and 
the withered tassels at the ends of the 
branches have something in them that 
the birds like. Hedges are always likely 
places, and of course every tree that still 
has the seeds or fruit hanging to its 
branches is likely to attract the biids. 
Such trees are the maple, box alder, 
hornbeam, mountain ash and juni¬ 
per. Somewhere we know of long 
lines of shrubbery fringing a stream, 
or growing in dense patches, which look 
like thick, warm fur against the snow. 
Here the birds find shelter and often 
food. There is one other place where 
we must look. It is along roadsides or 
fences, where the weeds and thistles have 
sprung up. Here the snow is frequently 
covered with the cast off pods and shells, 
from which the farmer’s feathered friends 
have carefully taken out the seeds. 
In the places named you will find 
some rare and interesting birds. Many 
grown up people have looked a life time 
for some of them and have not seen them, 
and yet any wide-awake boy or girl might 
happen upon such birds any day. Some 
of them are so seldom seen because they 
visit us so irregularly. They may be 
common one year and then many years 
go by before they come again. Such birds 
are the Evening Grosbeak, the Pine 
Grosbeak, the Crossbills, and the Bo¬ 
hemian Waxwing. If you see but one 
of these birds during a long winter’s 
tramp you can feel well repaid. In the 
following list we will not mention the 
Bluejay, Crow, Hairy and Downey Wood-' 
pecker, J unco, Tree Sparrow or Goldfinch 
because most of us know these birds so 
well. 
THE EVENING GROSBEAK. 
This is “a bird of distinguished appear¬ 
ance, whose very name seems to suggest, 
the far away land of the dippingsun, and 
the tuneful romance which the wild bird 
throws around the fading light of day; 
clothed, in striking color contrasts he 
