For the Natural History Club.
There have been living in an old willow-tree in our yard this winter six very dark colored birds, the size of a robin, with long slender bills. They have a whistle call very much like the mockingbird, and have only shown themselves on very warm days early in the morning. They evidently get their food from a neighboring chicken-pen. We have been here fifteen years and have never seen these little guests before. I should like some one interested in ornithology to see them and tell me how they happened here.
L. E. B.
Yonkers, N. Y.