Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967)

unless odds are greatly in his favor, still the former bird is peace loving and will not remain where he will have to fight for a foot hold. And I have seen none since then.

     But at that the sparrows at feeding presented an amusing sight. One looked especially ludicrous as he stood on a leaf stem under a large seed-head, which he could only reach by strenuous craning of his neck and rearing of his body. Usually he cold only hold this position long enough to dislodge one seed, and more often than not, he let it drop, to his evident exasperation; but never once did he seek to regain the lost seed a momentary glance after it and again he would reach up. Another was more wise; he perched on the upper rim of the seed-disc and leaned over and was much more successful in this method. They could not remain peaceful, however. Once a sparrow had a stalk