FOREST AND STREAM 
1253 
THE WINTER. 
(Continued from page 1230.) 
predatory animals crossed one another every¬ 
where. We saw many times where they had 
caught their prey. In every instance where 
weeds or feed-bearing plants were discovered 
standing we scattered it to the ground with our 
clubs. More than once we came across cardinal 
grosbeaks, sparrows and jays fighting hard the 
ice bound berries of the sumac bushes, and at a 
respectful distance quail awaited the fallen 
seeds. On some occasions we saw them attack 
sumac. That night Mat and I brought in fifty- 
four quail. 
Snow began to fall early the next morning 
and continued all that day, a north wind driving 
it with cutting blasts. We became more in¬ 
terested in our work. It was not so hard to 
find the birds even with the snow drifting, many 
craving for food moved all of the time in search 
of it. Some, however, had given up hope, and 
crowded together near a log or brush pile 
awaiting death or the termination of the storm. 
Our work that day was recompensed with many 
more than the day before. 
The third day the snow continued* Many 
birds succumbed to the hawks and preying 
animals, but most to the cold and starvation. 
In clumps of sedge we found many birds dead, 
hut some were still alive. 
At one place a battle had been fought between 
a cock quail and a small screech owl. The 
quail, though, in his attenuated condition, had 
put up a noble fight. The snow was disturbed 
for twenty yards around, but on top of him, 
blinking at the light of day, staring stupidly at 
me, and breathing laboriously from the strenuous 
engagement, stood the little owl on its victim. 
It was so exhausted it was unable to fly, and at 
that I had no intention to take revenge on it 
for what Nature had bidden it to do. 
Our search culminated with the compensation 
of a few quail. They were exceedingly weak. 
At home the other birds were foraging nicely, 
and the last ones soon caught up in strength. 
In time we paid no attention to feeding them. 
They subsisted entirely on the peas they shelled 
out by themselves. Every morning we threw 
some millet and pea hay on the barn floor, 
and it was great fun watching them work at it 
so industriously for the grain. It was surpris¬ 
ing how few we lost at first. Later when the 
weather subsided some escaped from the barn 
and wandered away. 
At last spring arrived with warm sun rays 
and pungent odors of thawed-out earth. It was 
many days before the birds deserted us entirely, 
though they lingered near the barn well up to the 
time when the breeding instinct urged them to 
the fields. 
Within a radius of a hundred miles the sports¬ 
men the following fall lamented the scarcity 
of birds. Our twenty-five covies nicely scattered 
over the hills yielded us a splendid increase, 
and taught us to set a law of limits of our own 
on the number killed. The contrast between 
where the birds were fed and cared for and 
where they were given no attention was notice¬ 
able for many years. 
MISSISSIPPI VALLEY NATIONAL PARK. 
Senator William S. Kenyon, of Iowa, has re¬ 
cently introduced a bill for the establishment of 
a national park along the Mississippi River near 
Prairie du Chien (Wis.), and McGregor, Iowa. 
Mississippi Valley National Park is the suggest¬ 
ed name for the Government reserve, which will 
include nearly 1,000 acres of land as well as in¬ 
numerable islands in the river. 
THE UNNATURAL HISTORY DEPARTMENT. 
T HE unnatural history connected with this 
month’s lesson concerns man’s natural pro¬ 
pensities in the way of wiping out of valu¬ 
able and interesting species rather than any diffi¬ 
culty in guessing the correct answer. A press 
story just at hand announces the alleged dis¬ 
covery of a flock of real passenger pigeons in 
northwestern Pennsylvania. The illustration 
herewith is of a family almost as rare. 
By the way, last month’s lesson represented an 
Australian duckbill—the Ornithorhynchus anati- 
nus. Don’t you mind when you used to ask the 
teacher to pronounce it for you? 
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II. 
III. 
Trout Found in American Waters. 
The Art of Fly-Fishing. 
A Comparison of the Merits of the Wet 
and Dry Methods of Fly-Fishing. 
IV. The Fly-Rod and its Function. 
V. For the Beginner at Fly-Fishing. 
VI. The Rod, The Reel, The Line, The 
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The Habits of Trout. 
The Coloration of Trout. 
The Sight and Hearing of Trout. 
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IX. 
X. 
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XV. How to Make Your Own Leaders. 
XVI. Trout Fly-Fishing in the Rangeley 
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XVII. Wet-Flies Used in Various States. 
XVIII. Dry-Flies Used in England and America. 
XIX. List of Wet-Flies. 
XX. Miscellaneous Matters. 
Glossary. Index. 
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