Show the of the bird all our permanent residents among the birds both large and small are comparatively ively limited in their ranges the crow is nearly as local as the woodchuck he goes farther from home m quest of food but his territory is well def both winter and summer his place of ro remains the same year after year once while speeding a few days at a mountain lake nearly surrounded by deep woods my attention was attracted each night at sundown by an osprey that always cams from the came direction dipped into the lake as he passed over it for a sip of its pure water and disappeared in the wooda beyond the routine of his life was probably as marked as that of any of ours bo fished the waters of the delaware all day probably never going beyond a certain limit and returned each night at sundown as punctual as a day laborer to his retreat in the forest the sip of water 10 from tho lake he never failed to take all the facts we possess in regard to the habits of the song birds in this re point to the conclusion that the same individuals return to the same localities cali ties year after ear to nest and to rear their young john burroughs in century |