BY THE WAYSIDE 
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OOen Bird. 
Oven bird or golden-crowned thrush is 
a ground bird and is often classed with 
the warblers as it is small and comes 
with those birds. It walks about instead 
of hopping like other birds. It is olive 
green above with yellow stripes on the 
crown; white underneath with brown 
stripes. 
The Usefulness of Birds. 
As soon as the warm weather ap¬ 
proaches and the sun shines on the earth, 
the birds can be seen hovering above us. 
They are looking for straw, string and 
sticks foi; building nests. 
The city people are likely to see the 
robin, which is usually one of the first 
irrivals. VV hen the farmers see that the 
bluebird has appeared they know that 
spring has come. The robins prefer to 
ive in the city because the people water 
heir grounds more than the country 
>eople do. They will find more worms 
iere because the worms are at the sur- 
ice. The birds are the greatest musi- 
uuuB ucuome 
more numerous, we can hear their cheer¬ 
ful and famous voices resound within 
the parks. If these lovely creatures 
would not visit us during spring and 
summer, it would be very lonesome. 
The chief food of some birds are worms 
insects and seeds. Birds search on the 
ground, in bark of trees and on plants, 
f it were not for the birds there would 
not be any trees. Some people say that 
the birds scatter seeds and it is true. If 
a bird has a seed in its mouth, and drops 
it where the plant is unknown, it would 
be quite valuable. 
There are in this world very many 
graceful birds. One bright colored bird 
is the scarlet tanager. This bird is all 
red except its wings which are black 
Another is the cedar bird, whose plumage 
is very beautiful. The oriole also has a 
beautiful plumage. Their graceful colors 
helps to make the earth happy. 
Lilian Schoenecker 
Milwaukee, Wis. 
n „ 7 ■ Appleton, Wis. 
Dear Wayside: 
While I was coming home one day in 
the early spring I witnesed a very in¬ 
teresting incident. There were one roos¬ 
ter and five hens in a backyard looking 
for worms. While the hens ^ere scratch¬ 
ing about without finding anything, Sir 
Rooster found a worm about five inches 
long. As soon as the hens saw Sir Rooster 
had found a worm they all ran after him 
chasing him all around the yard. Sir 
Rooster forgot that any well-manner., I 
rooster would divide his food with I,,.- 
