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1 5 6 0 FEBRUARY NOTES «[ These be the Cold Mid-Winter days, when all is white; woods, fields and sky alike. My February Bird too is White; he is a Snowflake—otherwise known as a Snow Lark. To dwellers in Southern climes I must crave indulgence for my selection ; for rarely do the Snow Larks fly south of the 38th parallel. Accept my this month’s Bird, therefore, with faith; and read the scroll in his beak with confiding trust. Nansen, Peary, the Esquimaux and other Circumpolar readers of The Phonogram will vouch for the Snow Lark; so will all Northerners north of Ken- tucky. I have often seen him in great flocks, whirling about in the drifting snow, seeking shelter in clumps of bushes and catching the seeds from the tall stalks yet standing in wind swept meadows. Scanty food indeed! and a meagre field for the gathering of acceptable Graph, Gram and Scope facts; explaining that lack of interesting news in my current issue that I fear is apparent to some of my very discerning readers. Yet my Snow Bird has been diligent; so marry, forsooth, gentle reader, pray accept the intent of my White Bird Editor and suspend criticism. As to subscriptions, they are always welcome. They commence with the current issue invariably, as several of the Early Numbers of The Phonogram have disappeared entirely. «[ Three have w'ritten expressing a polite disbelief in the probability and even the possibility of my October Contri- bution 4< Mf. Simpkin’s Snoring Record. ** Friends, thou art married happily. Yet listen to this clipping from the New York Sun. That’s all I have to say; for “If VQU see it in The Sun its so. ’*