Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 237
that some birds arrive from the north in late autumn orearly winter and depart in the spring. To these bird visitors, our cold winters are warmer climes. The knowledge ofthis fact, and the observation of these birds gratefully gathering food in the snow or joyously singing in bare branches oftrees… … EVENING GROSBEAKS ON A MAPLE BOUGH. us again at the beginning of spring for north-ern lands and snow-banked hillsides, where thelong day and pale twilight nights of the Arcticreign. Birds that raise their broods in the far,treeless northland, where heather, grasses, andstunted alders grow on a…
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