t during the
spring. Nightingales arrive early in April;
wagtails, turtle doves, and cuckoos come late in
April; woodcock come in the autumn, and redpoles
and fieldfares also come here for the winter. In
September you will see the migrating birds
collecting to go away, the starlings in their
crowds and the swallows for the South, and so do
the warblers, the flycatchers, and the swifts. And
yet about the same time the larks are arriving
here from the Eastward, so there is a good deal of
traveling among the birds in the air at all times
of the year.

How many of our American Scouts are able to supply from their
observation all of our native birds to take the places of these
mentioned in this lovely paragraph? Everyone should be able to.

_Nature in the City._--This noticing of small
things, especially in animal life, not only gives
you great interest, but it also gives you great
fun and enjoyment in life. Even if you live in a
city you can do a certain amount of observation
of birds and animals. You would think there is not
much fun to be got out of it in a murky town like
London or Sheffield, and yet if you begin to
notice and know all about the sparrows you begin
to find there is a great deal of character and
amusement to be got out of them, by watching their
ways and habits, their nesting, and their way of
teaching their young ones to fly.

OBSERVATION.

"_Stalking._--A Guide has to be sharp at seeing
things if she is going to be any good as a Guide.
She has to notice every little track and every
little sign, and it is this studying of tracks and
following them out and finding out their meaning
which we include under the name of stalking. For
instance, if you want to find a bird's-nest you
have to stalk. That is to say, you watch a bird
flying into a bush and guess where its nest is,
and follow it up and find the nest. With some
birds it is a most difficult thing to find their
nests; take, for instance, the skylark or the
snipe. But those who know the birds, especially
the snipe, will recognize their call. The snipe