April 13, 1907.] 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
565 
BIRDS ATE FROZEN WORMS. 
A recent snowstorm, which followed the warm 
rain of a day or two before, must have caused 
the death of many hundreds of birds which had 
just come north en route for their summer breed¬ 
ing' home. But in many places in and around 
New York a most interesting source of food 
served in place of the tiny gnats and other pre¬ 
cocious insects which the birds were deprived 
of by the cold. 
The warm rain of the evening of Easter Sun¬ 
day brought thousand of angleworms to the sur¬ 
face of the ground—on one gravel walk, within 
an area of a few square feet, more than two 
hundred were counted. The snow which fol¬ 
lowed froze these worms and made it impossible 
for them to go again below the frost line. Hence, 
when the thin covering of snow melted the next 
morning this manna of plenty was revealed, and 
discovered at once by the starving feathered 
colony. 
Robins, bluebirds, chipping and field sparrows, 
phoebes, myrtle warblers, grackles, red-winged 
blackbirds, and cowbirds were all seen feeding 
on the worms. To the seed-eating sparrows this 
food was of course not necessary, but was cer¬ 
tainly enjoyed as an unlooked-for treat, and it 
doubtless saved the lives of untold fly-catchers 
and warblers. 'It was interesting to see the un¬ 
concerned way in which the phoebes would fly 
down, snatch a worm without alighting, and, 
flying back to some perch, pound it, and swallow 
the morsel. Now and then, in their hunger, one 
of these birds would even alight on the ground 
and devour the worm, deserting all precedents 
of the fly-catcher family, and temporarily adopt¬ 
ing the habits of the robins and blackbirds.—New 
York Post. 
MUSKRATS AS FOOD. 
One dealer on Dock street sells about 3,000 
muskrats a week. These are purchased princi¬ 
pally by negroes, who are very fond of the dish, 
though it is whispered that in season at some 
of the restaurants muskrat often masquerades 
as rabbit. 
It is somewhat similar to the latter in taste, 
but sweeter, and those who have eaten it pro¬ 
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