"Well, I will," said Bobbie stoutly, and out he crawled onto the edge of the pot, spread his wings, and with one preparatory flap rose in the air and down he came with a frightened "peep" to the ground. Bridget at this moment, broom in hand, came out upon the porch to do her daily sweeping. "It's lucky for ye's, me darlint," said she, tenderly picking up the helpless bird, "that we do be havin' no cats for tinents on these premises, so it is. A purty soft thing ye's now are in your coat of feathers, and not an ugly little baste, at all, at all." "It's quare," she continued, stroking the bird with her big red fingers, "what idees the innocent crather do be puttin' into me head for sure. Me hand, for insthance, and the wings ov this little bird! Two wonderful things, when wan comes to think of it, and very useful. It's sorra crathers we'd both be without 'em, wudn't we, birdie? There now," placing it in the pot, "take an owld woman's advice and don't ye's be so anxious after leavin' the home nest. Its many a hard arned dollar, so it is, that Bridget O'Flaherty wud give to get back to her own," and with visions before her humid eyes, of Old Ireland and the tumble-down cottage in which she was born, Bridget fell vigorously to sweeping. (TO BE CONCLUDED.) ---- SUMMARY. Page 166. SOUTH AMERICAN RHEA.--_Rhea americana._ Other name: "Ostrich." RANGE--Paraguay and southern Brazil through the State of La Plata to Patagonia. NEST--In the ground, dug by the female with her feet. EGGS--Twenty and upwards. ---- Page 170. BAY-BREASTED WARBLER.--_Dendroica castanea._ Other name: "Autumnal Warbler." RANGE--Eastern North America, westward to Hudson Bay; south in winter to Central America. NEST--Of fine shreds of bark, small twigs, roots, and pine hair. EGGS--Four, white, with bluish tinge, finely speckled on or round the larger end. ---- Page 174. BLACK-NECKED STILT.--_Himantopus mexicanus._ Other names: "Lawyer," "Long Shanks," "Pink-Stockings." RANGE--The whole of temperate North America, middle America, and northern South America, south to Peru and Brazil; West Indies in general, and Bermudas; north on the Atlantic coast to Maine. More generally distributed and more abundant in the western than in the eastern province. NEST--Small sticks and roots, in the grass on the margin of a lake or river. EGGS--Three or four, greenish-yellow. ---- Page 178. PINTAIL.--_Dafila acuta._ Other names: Sprig-tail; Spike-tail; Pike-tail; Picket-tail; Pheasant Duck; Sea Pheasant; Water Pheasant; Long-neck. RANGE--Nearly the entire northern hemisphere, breeding chiefly far northward, in North America, migrating south in winter as far as Panama and Cuba. NEST--In tall bunches of prairie grass, seldom far from water. EGGS--Eight or nine, of a dull grayish olive. ---- Page 183. DOUBLE YELLOW-HEADED PARROT.--_Conurus mexicanus._ RANGE--Eastern coast of Mexico. NEST--In holes of trees. EGGS--Two. ---- Page 187.