other persons. have discovered what seem to be some of the Grosbeak summer homes in the Cascade and Coast Range Mountains.
What these birds, unafraid, do in their familiar relations with human beings is at the same time a sad revelation of our wrong attitude toward bird-life in general and a beautiful realization, in a small way, of the prophetic words of the poet Shelley,—
“No longer now the winged habitants.
That in the woods their sweet lives sing away,
Flee from the form of man: but gather round,
And preen their sunnv feathers on the hands
Which little chicken stretch in friendly sport
Toward these dreadless partners of their play.
. . . Happiness
And science dawn, through the late, upon the earth.”
Copyright by C. D. Kellogg
A CROW ROOST
Photographed by moonlight near Salem, N. J., December 20, 1901, by C. D. Kellogg. Plate exposed from 4 A. M. to 5 A. M. The birds in the foreground had fallen from their roosts during the night. (See fronispiece and also article on this Crow roost, by Witmer Stone, in Bird-Lore for December, 1899.)
