TEES PREY, 
TREE SPARROW IS LIKELY TO BE 
THE MOST 
FREQUENT GUEST 
IN COLD WEATHER. 
loggerhead shrike, Carolina wren, 
tufted titmouse, and brown-headed 
nuthatch. A considerable number of 
our hardier Northern summer birds are 
also found. ‘The frosts are only occa- 
sional and moderate, and the air is de- 
lightful—with all due respect to the 
biting, exhilarating northwest zephyrs 
of the snow-bound regions beyond. 
When we get as far south as Florida, 
it seems like mockery to talk of winter. 
To be sure many of the birds have 
crossed the sea to Central and South 
America, yet there are many left. The 
little ground doves are so quaint, the 
jays, including now the Florida jay, 
so abundant and saucy, and the shore 
birds, herons, ibis, and many water 
fowl so interesting e as thoughtless 
tourists have exterminated them along 
the well-traveled routes, a crying abom- 
ination ! 
It is delightful to escape a month or 
so of the intense cold and wander 
through the orange groves, the pineries, 
the swamps, or by the tepid ocean, 
among the birds. Yet last March, 
after a month in the temperature of the 
eighties, when I returned home and 
filled my lungs with deep draughts of the 
delicious keen air which had been kept 
on ice for me, it did seem that never in 
my life had I so appreciated a bluster- 
ing New England March. 
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