What did you see, Nat ?" "I crept in among the cedar trees, and there was a whole lot of rather big gray birds sitting in a row on a branch; they had black around their beaks and their head feathers stuck up in front.

They didn't seem to be building nests, but were only whispering to each other." "Those were Cedar Waxwings." "Then," continued Nat, "when I was coming back I saw a flock of the prettiest, jolliest little birds flying round the old grass, and hanging on to some stalks of weeds.

They were mostly yellow with some black, and they sang something like Canaries, and when they flew they sort of jerked along." "Those were American Goldfinches.

And now for yours, Rap." "I was looking at the Barn Swallows most of the time," he answered, "and thinking there must be a good many different cousins in their family; then I went down to the pasture and saw a bird I never noticed before, who flew over from the potato field and went into a thorn bush.

He was bigger than a Robin and had a thick head and beak.