1. pets
2. reptiles

HOW
TO
BIRDS
NATIVE
OUR
THEM
PROTECT
THEM
TO
OUR
AND
HOMES
ATTRACT
H^)"i^"
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o
?
HOW
OUR
NATIVE
TO
PROTECT
BIRDS
AND
THEM
THEM
TO
OUR
ATTRACT
HOMES
BY
D.
AUTHOR
INSTRUCTOR
"
OF
IN
LANGE
HANDBOOK
NATURE
OF
STUDY
WITH
IN
PAUL,
ST.
"
NATURE
OF
THE
STUDY
SCHOOLS
PUBLIC
MINNESOTA
ILLUSTRATIONS
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MACMnXAN
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MACMILLAN
1899
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rights reserved
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Copyright,
the
By
1899,
COMPANY.
MACMILLAN
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J.
S.
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Norwood
"
IPrfSg
Berwick
Co.
"
Mass.
U.S.A.
"
Smith
PREFACE
In
point
the
following
out
several
ready
to
birds,
birds
the
less
do
to
I
not
of
when
the
the
Education
the
these
wardens
the
of
protection
good
on
the
is
state,
If
nation
game
now.
to
mammals.
in
we
enforce
legal
tire
always
often
too
regret
effective
do
come
than
This,
to
not
can-
are
and
out
made
which
We
evil, but
an
carry
and
young
been
protection
to
birds,
nature
will
time
the
to
game
and
educating
the
against
law.
obstacle
greatest
bird
has
enactments.
means
the
of
provisions
of
law
a
pass
legal
insufficient
provide
song
in
effort
an
for
means
embodied
be
pages
will
works
friends
work
of
subjects,
have
slow,
much
but
it is
effective.
thanks
My
permission
to
"
and
has
Frank
chapter
Bond
The
the
to
by
that
Elizabeth
Mrs.
Vermont,
"
made
published
report.
the
on
to
from
quote
report
Mammals
due
are
contributed
on
Feeding
of
Cheyenne,
Mr.
William
his
T.
interesting
most
of
Destruction
New
York
society
B.
its
from
Birds
her
in
Wyoming,
long
uable
valand
Society,
annual
second
of
Davenport
and
Birds
our
Zoological
in
for
Hornaday
Brattleboro,
experience
Winter,
describes
and
his
to
Mr.
very
vi
PREFACE
thanks
My
of
method
effective
drawings
be
should
protect
and
who
farming
to
means
for
is
pen-and-ink
hoped,
and
the
have
hope
methods
of
St.
will
be
that
in
gardening,
and
birds
to
to
the
September,
Minnesota,
1899,
vices
de-
future
near
will
our
study
them.
D.
Paul,
devices
and
Stations
of
protecting
and
the
try
may
methods
new
relation
the
who
one
any
Experiment
Agricultural
to
by
may
I
attention
St.
have
Giehler
it
from
birds
attract
or
State
best
The
me.
matter,
hear
to
communicate.
to
more
Day
glad
recommended,
and
who
schools.
in
useful
found
our
friends
Herman
Mr.
by
Bird
special
The
to
to
sparrow.
Minnesota.
Paul,
I
made
were
English
several
to
suggestions
valuable
made
due
also
are
the
with
dealing
LANGE.
pay
homes
of
the
CONTENTS
I
SECTION
PAGE
Are
1
decreasing?
Birds
the
II
SECTION
Causes
of
decrease
the
Birds
Song
of
SECTION
The
Decrease
Game
of
III
13
Birds
IV
SECTION
Protecting
Song
6
...
Birds
attracting
and
them
to
our
19
Homes
Chapter
By
furnishing
for
Trees,
them
Hummingbirds.
planting
for
Birds.
I
Vines,
General
Shrubs.
Flowers
for
Suggestions
Schools
Rural
and
Nature
19
Nesting-boxes.
.
II
Do
not
cut
down
every
Hollow
33
Tree
Chapter
Provide
Tree-
.
Chapter
Provide
and
Drinking
and
III
Bathing
vii
Fountains
42
...
viii
CONTENTS
Chapter
IV
PAGE
Feeding
Other
Birds
in
Winter,
and
in Unfavorable
Miscellaneous.
46
Dust
Protectingthe
Birds
V
Lime
Baths, Gravel, and
Chapter
from
.
.
.
.
Enemies
Birds
on
Bird
72
Song
VIII
Hunters, Ubiquitous Gunners
Birds
as
and
V
92
Birds
Chapter
X
92
Educating Adults
Chapter
Educating the Growing
before
Uncle
XI
96
Generation
SECTION
Birds
81
90
Food
the
....
Students,
IX
SECTION
Education
Bird
Hats, Boys, Collectors,So-called
Chapter
64
YII
English Sparrow Question
Chapter
62
YI
their Natural
Chapter
The
at
Seasons
Chapter
The
Weather
Sam
VI
99
ix
CONTENTS
SECTION
VII
PAGE
Game
Protection
from
the
Nature
Lover's
View
of
126
SECTION
Miscellaneous
Point
Information
VIII
144
I
For
flowers,
For
birds,
plead
of
fairies
smiling
and
wings
the
ground;
bound
skyward
breezes
;
on
For
For
trees,
beasts,
spires
lofty
the
still
persecuted
hills
of
roam
we
in
their
forest
;
home.
NATIVE
OUR
HOW
TO
BIRDS
THEM
AND
THEM
PROTECT
TO
OUR
HOMES
ATTRACT
OUR
I^ATIYE
BIRDS
SECTION
About
a
what
the
ARE
THE
year
ago
United
BIRDS
William
termed
^
States.
territory,excepting
Alaska
1.
Are
2.
About
with
birds
?
3.
one-third
What
The
"The
New
as
valuable
of
in
document
Birds
our
ever
of
of
the
published
the
1
most
?
on
York
New
and
questions
Mammals,"
the
been
as
quadrupeds
or
following
Society, 69
on
birds
must,
and
One-half
locality?
those
The
comj^arison
has
men,
state
them
?
ago
of
your
in
now
your
to
Report
Office
of
species
from
of
"Second
1898.
B
birds
trustworthy.
Destruction
York,
class
received
drawn
Ill the
day.
?
extinct
answers
accepted
one-fourth
important
conclusions
1
the
to
becoming
are
years
or
and
state
every
of
set
locality?
there
fifteen
agency,
destructive
4.
?
of
"
in your
are
many
number
What
:
piled
com-
census
following
in
persons
decreasing
how
the
many
a
Hornaclay
first bird
the
sent
of
to
T.
the
He
number
questions
DECREASING
Mr.
be
might
I
Wall
subject.
the
whole, be
states
by W.
Zoological
Street.
the
reported
T.
Horna-
Society,"
The
most
a
Nebraska
to
These
77 per
an
The
comprise
of 46 per
:
"
about
as
area
cent.
birds
many
three-
this vast
Carolina, Oregon, and
were
in
cent
per
namely
States, and
decrease
there
10
from
in Florida,
United
of North
reportedthat
varying
territories
whole
average
states
cent
and
states
fifths of the
shows
life
bird
of
decrease
BIRDS
NATIVE
OUR
as
California
fifteen years
ago.
Four
states
It is to
Arizona,
be
of Canada
Tennessee,
to song
be
were
Kentucky,
expected
increasing.
A
and
out
in this
bama,
Virginia,Ala-
be
in
Dominion
the
report.
refer to game
large decrease
cannot
West
Dakota,
South
Maryland, and
included
not
questionssent
birds.
w^as
regrettedthat Minnesota,
Nevada, Delaware,
The
life
reported that bird
"
ington
Wash-
Utah, and
Kansas, Wyoming,
"
birds
as
well
aquaticbirds
prevented
when
a
as
is to
new
ARE
is
country
old
an
The
country.
quail,should
farming district,unless
closed season,
^
of
scarcity
Admitting
to be
the
increase
is
may
in game
birds
I make
the
and
greatly decreased.
that
on
of
quails have
at least
Ducks
St.
Avenue,
every
three
in the
I often
birds,
Cat-
:
the
shootingin
and
account
closed
prohibitedby
the
Paul, where
minutes.
canvas-back
of much
law.
In
Wood
have
rose-
Seventh
electric
Pinnated
car
grouse,
decreased.
account
of
the
swamps,
and
on
account
ducks, red-heads,
of
gansers,
mer-
50 per cent, all
decreased
hunting. Green-winged teal,malis the time
season
an
shooting,especiallyon
spring.
This
two
of
corner
general have decreased on
and draining of sloughs and
of excessive
account
peckers,
wood-
of the last
case
heard
in
drying up
The
others
increased.
and partridgeshave
prairie-chickens,
1
based
larks, kingbirds,rose-
noticeable
particularly
Street and Maria
was
as
followingestimate
spring of 1898,
grosbeaks sing near
breasted
on
also
they have been
states, it is a deplorable
also
the
In
son.
sea-
of w^ater
laws
game
in these
jays,and
blue
a
the
open
grosbeaks,swallows, swifts, red-headed
breasted
or
the
thrushes, meadovv^
brown
passes
want
in
during
during the
general decrease
observations
own
my
decrease
not
hunted
are
much
too
birds have
song
Minnesota
For
six.
a
enforced
and
fact that
on
that
birds, like
these birds.
expected under
enacted
they
quite likelythat
It is
a
cause
hunted
or
in
population increases
gallinaceous game
partridge,and
grouse,
the
when
settled,or
3
DECREASING
BIRDS
THE
the open
during
season
which
hunting
fishingand
or
hunting
lishing is
are
legal.
4
OUR
and
lards, pin-tails,
the
while
maintained
have
widgeons
the
and
blue-winged teal
for
farmers
decreased
on
depredation
on
50
the
to
he
late
spring
found
many
In the
snow.
I also
numerous.
The
years.
the balance,
ruddy
duck
increase
late
night frosts.
many
birds from
late frosts would
The
of birds
is
ago,
the
on
of
corner
everywhere very
than
I had
for
seen
suggest for this decided
can
was
late
years
northeast
bluebirds
I
few
a
lying starved
the
to
previous years
over
of
bluebirds
in
of 1898, I travelled
all kinds
causes
have
Bean, of Nicollet,
decrease
summer
more
being shot by
Bluebirds
B.
storm
snow
and
saw
only
J.
great
corner
found
and
Minnesota
berries.
bluebirds
spring
southwest
the
from
the
that
of
account
Mr.
cent.
per
thinks
Minn.,
when
decreased
have
Robins
the
BIRDS
increased.
have
due
XATIVE
late
a
spring may
spring with no
have prevented
going farther north, and
favor their nestingand
of
the absence
the
rearingof
young.
ity
disappearfrom one localin another
and
increase
and appear
locality. The
red-headed
woodpecker has, for instance, disappeared
will often
Birds
from
in
near
prairie,
the
open
the
nearest
the
natural
district
birds,no
found
the
are
a
scrub
too
railroad
regions,where
birds
they
for
young
in
very
nested
and
appeared
I
the
saw
track, five
The
timber.
doubt, nested
same
and
May, 1898,
In
others.
or
St. Paul
localities in
some
that
decrease
farm
bird
miles
on
from
groves
in
woodpecker nests, but
telegraphpoles.
numerous
in
creased
in-
in
I have
burnt-over
fire-killed trees.
It
SECTION
FOR
CAUSES
of
carpenters
decaying
make
and
for
brown
bird
from
selecting
and
size
which
and
and
But
old, hollow
to
are
no
left
trees
the
fence
places
are,
however,
thoughtless
or
two
seasons
birds
list
the
where
regions
A
posts,
very
boys,
tlie
few
and
much
and
linemen
6
fool
put
in
owls
of
old
to
new
no
pelled
com-
homes
telegraph
These
cats, birds
gunners.
a
are
are
natural
exposed
adult
them
substitutes.
other
small
there
of
use
broken
of
nests.
their
make
which
larger holes,
when
Most
each
;
house
a
decay
their
nest,
?
standing
longer found.
old
one
chickadees,
In
build
deserted
or
by
taste.
by
duck
tliese
poles,
prey,
its
are
than
bluebirds
"
Rent
caused
wood
can
leave
vacant
and
trees
houses
more
and
the
hollows
old
enlarged by woodpeckers,
were
where
To
"
and
holes
sought
wrens,
suits
were
beautiful
the
the
eagerly
the
location
probably
branches
and
creepers,
old
build
carpenters
are
excavate
Where
young.
every
are
the
in
to
nuthatches
They
and
themselves,
homes
woodpecker
titmice,
their
bird
these
need
they
and
BIRDS
Iviiown
is
"
world.
limbs,
for
houses
It
Places.
bird
SONG
OF
woodpeckers
the
trees
numerous,
in
Nesting
that
boy
country
DECREASE
THE
of
Lack
I.
II
of
After
telegraph
DECREASE
THE
FOR
CAUSES
the
birds
again homeless.
are
and
all the
nearly
either
sparrows
trees
and
underbrush
parks,for
lots and
little
that
2.
Lack
the
pump
drink
of
duck
unfavorable.
the
hose
is
The
to live.
the
most
the
is
vicinity
to bathe
love
In
pebbles.
dried
up, either
cover,
and
is often
available
for
the
and
town
has
birds
placed
from
for
on
can
the
its
cities
most
drink
lawn
and
and
many
of
account
is too
near
dr}^
The
birds, because
high
are
water-
no
and
clearingaway
farmer
water
on
most
and
on
the
of
towns
the
off
of the
account
pond
is not
If
in
result
birds love the
drained
practicallyuninhabitable
water-works,
city
thickets
those
been
on
far from
too
in
conditions
of
and
sand
have
reach
they cannot
and
no
least,also furnish
at
few
woodland,
farming regions,nearlyall ponds
The
trough
part,
then
American
frequentlyand
generaldrainageor
house, is
left.
are
very
springs have
and
of
cover.
and
large trees
acres
Nearly all
"
lakes
of timber.
the
most
such
near
low
on
scarce.
banks
small
all
few
a
to nest
are
They
densely settled
streams
down
the
of Water.
shallow
many
least, to be
tangles
love
birds
native
of water.
the
at
shrubbery and
the birds
which
native
many
brush, in tangles,and
on
no
and
grosbeak,
in
cuts
cattle
pastures his
but
nest
farmer
the
Where
warblers, vireos,
they love,
or
;
thrush, the rose-breasted
brown
catbird, the
The
birds like the robin, the
of song
large class
Another
7
BIRDS
old post.
rephicesthe
thriftyfarmer
pole and
SONG
OF
The
rim.
still
more
works, it is
birds.
If
bathe
only
allowed
it has
where
to
run
8
birds under
the
Cats.
3.
they can,"
and
trees, birds
small
About
attacks.
of the
that
and
nests
are
the
only
nest
has
ing
cats
the
are
almost
young
birds
fall to
their
perch
If
as
cats
many
tlie
alike
should
the
ground
is
it is wary
Avatch-
ever
And
how
many
of the nest
out
their
to
overbold
an
before
get it.
on
reach
cannot
the
flying,
of
to
sure
exposed
cat
a
ground,
art
new
hunters.
nest
or
from
keep
about
!
that
consider
we
to
bird, whenever
a
bird and
oriole, but
Baltimore
mastered
and
miss
we
boxes, in shrubs, and
and
holes
fledglingfall
oriole
catch
cats
confirmed
are
many
surprisedthat
be
we
domestic
All
"
BIRDS
conditions?
these
ground, in
the
On
Need
hours.
for several
city families
if not
also
to
seem
support mice, and
would
will, at least,keep
worthless
a
farmers
many
farm
the
as
many
worthless
a
scarcityof
the
cur,
that
cat,
need
birds
puzzle us.
not
could
with
4.
bird-lover
Some
mouser.
Boys, Collectors,and
experience with
mischief
turned
with
the individual
business
are
adults
cat
careful
to make
are
me
who
Students.
to say
egg
makes
nuisances.
and
that
for
responsible
protectors,as
the
Bird
against birds.
commit
into bird
individual
displacethe
So-called
boj^s enables
other
boys
ought
owl
small
as
a
iments
exper-
for this purpose.
owls
teachers, and
speciesof
some
domesticated, and
be
not
if
wondered
often
I have
a
NATIVE
OUE
I shall show
skin
are
of the
easily
The
later.
collectingmania,
collectingin
Several
parents,
most
They
^ly
"
a
and
settled country
and
periodicals
many
CAUSES
FOR
of the
people who
belong to the same
We
do
not
from
Birds
5.
has
birds to
tree
birds
of the
states
6.
The
but
Hats.
The
"
homes
children
our
the
to
birds
central
v/ould
hats
on
ber
num-
a
learned
not
and
northern
ladies' hats.^
adorn
There
"
of
I have
birds.
be
can
doubt
no
worries
otherwise
nest
probably been
however, its sins have
;
and
chatteringrogue
pugilistic,
birds which
many
tions
dusty collec-
exterminated
almost
or
being hunted in
Mississippibasin
this
and
us
wearing
English Sparrow.
that
very
sing to
bright-plumedsouthern
of song
in them
tops.
decreased,
fearfully
of
advertise
birds in dark
more
more
on
and
\)
BIRDS
SONG
class.
and
bushes
OF
for them
write
want
want
; we
DECREASE
THE
away
near
our
somewhat
exaggerated.
and
grain are
waste
that
of Food.
Lack
The
7.
perhaps
no
abundant
so
speciesof
account
of lack of food
autumn
and
there
is
The
8.
birds.
Extensive
Since
M.
See
:
"The
Chapman.
York.
New
as
settled
bird
decreased
has
in
Farming
for
the
on
For
residents
winter
food
abundant
region
time.
summer
for
and
possiblecause
a
all kinds
in every
the
of Poison
Use
nearly
supply.
and
ing.
Garden-
decrease
of
potato-bughas spread over the whole
gardener and farmer uses largequantities
the
country every
1
during
regular and
I cite this
"
song
spring migrants
such
no
of
Insects
"
Wearing
Published
Write
for
"The
Work
Plumes
of
Heron's
by
the Audubon
it
to
the
or
Aigrettes," by Frank
Societies
secretary
of
of New
any
State
Jersey
and
Audubon
Society.
See
also:
author, in
the
Ddincator,
of
the
March,
Audubon
1898.
Societies," by the
same
10
NATIVE
OUR
of Paris
I have
other
and
evidence
no
been
has
and
green
not
am
scientist,it
any
the
that
aware
birds
of insectivorous
that
subject
that
seems
known
are
to
a
eat
be, at times, poisonedby eatinginsects
potato-bugsmust
paralysed by
Paris
observed
corn
that
poisons. Althongh
arsenical
investigatedby
number
BUIDS
It
green.
has
which
has
been
been
repeatedly
with
impregnated
is
strychninefor killinggophers,blackbirds, and crows
eaten
at times
mourning
by quails,prairie-chickens,
larks,and
doves, meadow
The
only way
other
avoid the
to
birds is to restrict the
of
use
of insect,bird, and
cases
be reached
cannot
forget that
against us
them
to.
battle
nations
consider
is
now
as
We
all
need
use
gardener is apt
to
a
more
exaggerate
few
this
long ceased
not
struggle,consider
lower
lighton
the
man,
some
creatures, especially
?
means
Nearly
animals.
beast, because
within
unfair
of much
and
done
in the
of
as
all nature.
Should
war.
Avith the
war
have
divine
well
plants as
thinkers
fair in
means
they cannot
have
or
not
crimes
is the
birthrightof
humane
far ahead
so
and
of animals
and
injuriousbirds
bird
should
commit
not
existence, whicli
unalienable
unfair in his
means
do
that
cases
We
means.
animals
for
all life,and
Humane
who
to
"
they simply live as their nature compels
If they wage
war
against us, they are simply
it is the
to
other
pests
;
;
man
poisoningof song and game
poisons to the most serious
vermin
any
and
birds
fightingthe
rightof
by
seed-eaters.
the
every
question of
farmer
and
him
injury caused
by
injury is conspicuous,and
months,
weeks,
days,
or
even
is
FOR
CAUSES
whole
season
or
owl
people.
An
and
farmer
the
within
pulletand
does
he
know
not
sentenced
once
investigation.
The
dog and the cat, on
much
nine
dogs
of
out
of
element
an
In
the
bread
he
ten
every
least
at
earned
the
a
stray
hand,
held
are
the
In
in
city,
tute
consti-
other
lives
dog
on
nothing but a worthless
claws
are
against every
teeth
and
moose
in the
Ishmaelite, whose
creature, from
is
owl
inhabitants.
every
and
an
nuisance, and
a
the
danger to
country,
never
are
year,
sliot without
deserve.
they
is
a
catch
be
to
the other
than
higher esteem
owl
of most
in
there
let the
the
over
mice
that
place,but
is at
extend
thousand
a
11
BIRDS
the observation
elude
catch
may
of his
mile
a
and
year,
SONG
OF
rendered
benefits
the
But
hours.
DECREASE
THE
forest to the
in
mouse
the meadow.
DECREASE
OF
CAUSES
w.
Of
life and
state
the
ninety reports
declare
cent
per
a
The
therefor.
causes
IN
ers
show
the
list of destructive
This
and
other
"The
Destruction
report
as
of
published by
of the
author.
our
the
Mr.
from
extracts
Birds
New
and
York
W.
T.
Mammals"
a
long
obervbelow
reported each
have
who
of observers
number
now
in bird
decrease
operatingagainstour birds is
agenciesnow
of
the number
and it is interestingto note
The
who
figuresgiven
complain of each.
one,
1
80
about
us,
and
GIVEN
1
report.
hundred
one
AS
LIFE
BIRD
hornaday's
T.
the series of
before
IN
Hornaday's
are
taken
Zoological Society
with
report
on
from
his
the
mission
per-
12
OUR
of
these
in
the
various
BIKD^
NATIVE
in
causes
to
answer
the
third
question
list.
and
Sportsmen
who
Boys
so-called
"
54
sportsmen,"
reports
42
shoot,
....
Market-hmiters
and
26
pot-hunters,"
"
.
and
Plume-hunters
32
21
generally,"
Shooters
"
hunters,
milliners'
English
off
boys,
small
20
18
sparrow,
Clearing
by
chiefly
Egg-collecting,
....
of
development
timber,
towns
and
31
cities,
.
and
Italians
10.
who
others,
devour
song
birds.
5
firearms,
Cheap
12
....
11.
Drainage
12.
Non-enforcement
of
5
marshes,
of
5
laws,
.
and
clubs
13.
Gun
11.
Trapping
hunting
birds
for
5
contests
2
alive,
sale
.
miners,
15.
Prospectors,
16.
Collectors
17.
Colored
population,
18.
Indians
(for
and
(ornithologists
decrease
range-riders.
and
taxidermists)
2
5
4
of
game
quadrupeds).
4
14
OUR
known
NATIVE
the lake after this destruction
on
still visit the lake in
swans
Great
blue
water
the
of 1895
that
the
only
In
the
spring
of
ducks
1897
and
all
kinds
present in great numbers.
An
nearly
autumn
bred
coots
The
was
there
of
spring
1898
relapse into
no
in
When
winter.
the
half
feet
month
I
I
in
and
of
to
was
a
coots
was
shore
about
one
about
mallards
sprinklingof
almost
fringe of
was,
change
in
of
be about
by
on
hunters.
and
two
one
the
800
individuals.
also very
were
other
species.
incredible.
rushes
five miles, I estimated
point to
level
of
well
bred
sj^ecies,
about
was
was
twenty-fourthof that
red-heads, mostly 3'Oung, which
contain
and
teal
there
flock
a
estimated
winged
On
August.
saw
water
there
closed, and
disturbed
not
were
of the
of
but
lake
had
ducks, of different
depth
average
again
were
coming,
of
The
in
astonishingnumber
late
was
they
an
feet,and
ducks
great numbers
because
and
to
rose
one-half
spring shootingseason
lake
1896, by
it.
again
of
then
;
mud-flat,
a
on
clear of ice,the
the
of
when
in fall.
arrived
or
was
water
two
died
autumn
found
the
of about
depth
average
few
a
lake
fairly
1896,
or
bullheads
the
In
greater part of the
were
fall.
continued
cormorants
lake.
left the
of the fish,but
spring and
summer
low
so
there
that
and
the
in
was
birds
these
far
herons
until
numerous
the
BIRDS
10,000.
numerous
The
Following
with
a
Blue-
ber
numan
regular
ir-
for
field-glass
the
number
The
change
seen
from
in the water
accompanied by a corresponding
of 1898
aquatic plants. In the summer
course,
DECREASE
THE
there
were
of water
areas
food
favorite
is the
back
duck.
small
minnows,
water
for them
The
The
GAME
miles
square
many
extensive
OF
of water
pest, elodea,and
celer}^vaUisneria.
of
the
left
and
The
the level of the
sketch
supply will
insure
birds
if
hunted
and
a
they
much
too
lake
cranes,
proves
that
sufficient
food
fall,ducks
in
natural
disturbed.
and
swans,
*an
would
become
proved by
The
by
in
bird
the
and
snakes
that
of
their
lives
is about
in
as
such
natural
to
other
on
and
be
them.
large
so
and
and
are
and
wary,
as
Canada
breed
would
geese,
its nest
on
hunts
village meadows,
as
the
loons,
in which
it is not
is
the
countries.
heron
and
molested
roofs of houses
frogs, lizards,
and
in
have
This
environments.
Germany and in other
large as our great blue
buildings,and
the
favor
live and
of semi-domestication
builds
not
persecuted,
thoughtlessly
so
conspicuouslycolored,but
people,it
aquatic
likelyto
are
attention
wild
very
for
water
spring,and
nearly everybody
observe
the state
stork
is very
supply
supply
in
attract
accustomed
regions,so
herons
white
not
were
opportunity to
and
the
sufficient
pelicans are
they become
regions.
large birds
settled
in
at least
Thus
leave settled
they
principally
conditions
conspicuous that they always
If
clear
enough
were
a
hunted
not
are
wherever
numerous
Geese,
numerous
snow.
above
;
canvas-
in.
13roducedby correspondingchanges
rain
latter
the
were
weeds
about
The
and
observed
the
wherever
to swim
red-head
fish
only
changes in
15
BIRDS
fishes
in
and
the
16
nearest
and
streams
cartwheels
known
been
live
to
several
times
where
it
of
bird
wild
is still the
found
inaccessible
even
to
white
built
when
stork
the
by
describe, I do
hope
German
proverb
and
I
police may
the bird
with,
saying a
would
and
iSee
Lake
you
geese, is
Hatch,
but
"
Minnetonka,
the
was
covered
and
Tacitus
before
done
we
A
become
never
tinct,"
ex-
societies,law,
future
is
cannot
on
other
wild
always
what
Bird.s of
man
upon
duck,
full
or
Minnesota,"
:Minnesota.
creatures
Indian
chance
wood
opportunity of
the
or
and
a
of charm
on
herons
"
for who
hunted
woods
?
A
statelyheron,
a
espy
woman,
;
romance
marshes
our
may
principallyconcerned
pass
all the wild
beautiful
;
fools
near
from
away
lake, where
honking
almost
Where
Ceesar
still to be
little book
like to have
surprisea
which
forests,
exterminate
practically
-destroyingvariety.^
words
driven
I have
boy.
present range
The
"
the
in
this
few
Europe
were
schools, educative
that
birds, I
song
of
moors.
that
pines
has
:
says
hope
Although
tomed
accus-
protect large, conspicuous birds.
to
but
and
for
know.
not
missionary work
Much
may
its
forests
vast, gloomy
stork
enthusiastic
an
be
lonely moorland
in
tall
on
black
fens
its nest
built
was
the
house
can
as
birds
same
same
all birds
place
them
use
The
the
to
The
man.
near
storks
nests.
Not
years.
often
peasants
the
return
to
successive
many
The
for
foundations
convenient
have
ponds.
gables,where
the
on
BIRDS
NATIVE
OUR
flock of wild,
and
boy
on
virile inspiratio
or
Crane
girl,is
Island, in
DECREASE
THE
stirred
the
by
All
and
of
"
and
or
the sub-Arctic
when
thicket
may
the
be
to
you
deer
a
drink, when
is the wildest
cannot
''
Each
by neglect,
sinned
never
banished
we
wild
The
nature.
have
that
pang
or
coming
know
you
them
you
when
may
help thinkingthat
a
wild-cats
a
boat
to
trip,
from
out
How
voice.
your
creature
is
truly romantic
journey becomes,
whole
a
deed
birds
have
feel
?
expect
listeningto
with
by
The
Why
man.
wastes
may
you
either
the
of
but
painfuldesolation
emptiness of
this
interestingand
How
nothing
place you
a
the
confess
is there.
creatures' Eden
againstGod
and
kindred,
responsiblefor
are
of
such
encounter
17
BIRDS
harmony, only a part
home,
your
In
ripples?
is there, you
deserted
a
you
of
want
GAME
insipid combination
water, weeds, and
keenly a
OF
the
and
bears
stale and
six-inch
expect
to
for every
tame
pickerel
There
view.
lover of nature
becoming a tiresome place. Is the time
brown
English sparrows,
rapidly approaching when
rats, and cottontails will be the biggestwild creatures
read in the Holy Book
that
in the
country ? We
God saw
every thing that he had made, and, behold,
the
of
it was
taste
very good." I fear that, unless
Who
is unchangeable has undergone a decided
Him
disgustedwith
change,He must at this time be much
this world
is
"
a
largepart
gave
dominion
of the earth
over
rulingit
he is not
He
created.
all,is indeed
like
a
Man,
He
rulingthe earth, but
wise, beneficent
father
rulingit like a greedy,despoticconqueror.
that all lovers of nature
It is high time
c
whom
;
wake
he
is
up,
18
that
especially
johi
the
and
whose
Nature
make
soul
the
that
are
spirit
to
ins23iration
we
us
of
working
now
feel
from
future
awake
educators
and
children
our
speaks
BIRDS
teachers
all
forces
ourselves
very
NATIVE
OUR
to
that
great
in
Evangeline,
Hiawatha.
poets
and
for
preserve
and
beautiful
and
Let
impossible.
Avhose
us
not
IV
SECTION
PROTECTING
BIRDS
SONG
TO
ATTRACTING
AND
HOMES
OUR
CHAPTER
THEM
FURNISHING
BY
What
Plant.
to
likelyto
vicinity are
of
number
should
on
birds.
have
at
give
detailed
your
I
country,
and
the
to
Division,
are
kind
1
"
On
Birds
it would
suitable
refer
those
for
of
the
impossible
trees
groves
should
of
would
than
birds
city parks,
Forestrj^
lows
wil-
attracting
birds.
much
A
a
more
shade-enduring
any
answer.
the
and
have
almost
to
Agricultural
States
for
you
specific
more
Cottonwoods
D.C.
of
parts
the
United
poorest
more
be
superintendents
to
depend
locality
for
to
men,
species
and
all
looking
nursery
which
vine
for
greatest
will
want
your
grove
of
grove
mixed
consisting
of
only.^
food
the
of
space
directions
prairie
attracts
the
As
the
or
you
on
the
attract
what
disposal.
among
shrub, bush,
one
perfectly hardy
Washington,
underbrush,
trees
but
publications
all
Nearly
None
stations,
Experiment
in
and
reliable
to
wild
grow
best
and
must
directions
that
SHRUBS
thrive
Just
intentions
your
AND
VINES,
TREES,
selected.
be
I
Species
"
THEM
of birds
Village
fruit
from
and
birds.
see
Farmers^
Field,"
Pages
on
Bulletin
planting
xxiii-xxviii.
19
of
No.
54.
shrubbery
See
to
Merriam,
protect
tivated
cul-
20
OUR
of Stock.
Source
seeds
or
statingthe
what
the
leaves
sensitive
The
are
best
Evergreens.
can
be
planted
The
S3^stem has
the
at
wish
time
plants and
for
planting
is
before
are
evergreens
very
be taken
must
greatest care
from
is
Give
developed.
all,or
will
you
simply cause
thicker.
It
valuable
young
is
in the
When,
the
will
to ; when
name,
certain
advisable
species,as
found
two
of
in
the
a
most
genera
different
supports
them
three
much
near
stranglethem.
Latin name
is given
to
plant, the
to.
refer
number
of
sections
only
genus
the
follow
to
cases
to
one
plant
to
referred
a
from
words
Latin
speciesis
of most
in
advisable
name
crust
waxberry, Celas-
around
twine
they tend
lists following,
one
English
hard
a
soil.
trees, as
referred
a
not
not
root
of water, if
plenty
like
tliick,and
their
until
trees
young
become
it may
dry,
hops, moonseed, and
scandens, prefer poles or posts
Twiners,
or
the
planted in.
All
"
of the surface
be formed
with
reliable nursery,
a
growth begins,but
season
the
water
well
water
inches
most
becoming dry. They
the ground
as
earl}^
spring,as soon
in
If
"
to
necessary
trus
be
in
conveniently worked.
Watering.
you
but
from
out.
come
moving.
to
of
best
spring,just as
of
phmts
woods,
you
to
prevent the fine rootlets
to
are
they are
"
Planting
to
soil
have
the
for which
Planting.
the
early in
from
the
raise
cheaper to buy
purpose
for
BIRDS
might
them
be
place and
Time
Yoa
"
procure
it will
cases
NATIVE
It
English
not
was
is
ble
possi-
particular
valuable species
to
of
a
the
country.
22
NATIVE
OUR
Nursery men
from
introduced
offer
likelyto
are
Europe
BIRDS
specieswhicli
justas well, provided they are hardy in
where
they
that
mean
is
genus
and
Flora
Whitney
of the
that
our
who
flowers
wild
the
"
States.
Northern
States.
United
edition.
Second
Mountain
Rocky
Region.
books
to know
wish
the
to Mrs.
referred
are
illustrated and
are
intend
they
for ornamental
more
poses.
pur-
more
Dana,
to Parsons
and
spicuous
con-
How
"
Buck,
of California."
Flowers
flowers
wild
much
may
shrubs, vines, and
trees,
Flowers," and
Wild
the
native
be used
should
Wild
of
of the
Botany
our
Readers
of
United
:
Watson, Botany of California.
and
believe
purpose
the
consulted
Northern
United
of the Southern
Flora
5.
Both
On
Canada.
Coulter, Manual
"The
I have
genera
Brown, Illustrated
4.
know
the
edition.
Chapman,
to
that
or
Slope respectively.
of the
3.
flowers
region
North, South, Rocky ]\loun-
Pacific
the
the
N., S., M., W.,
is found
Botany
of
States and
I
the
speciesand
of
Gray, Manual
Sixth
letters
respectiveplant
the
on
distribution
2. Britton
The
representedin
tains, and
1.
wanted.
the
been
Asia, but they will generally
or
answer
are
have
to
and
serve,
deserve
a
well
are
that
show
place
in
the
adapted to
our
hundreds
parks
and
gardens.
Our
Nature
schools
Day,
flowers.
can
observing
should
Your
always
shrubs, and
in
find
space
not
Bird
flowers, and
Arbor
Day,
neglect vines, shrubs,
for trees
corners,
and
may
be
fences, and
it is
or
and
limited, but you
walls
for
generallyeasier
vines,
to make
TREES,
smaller
these
plants
to
your
plants
grow.
lawns
and
2.
"
False
YET
then
Bittersweet.
opened.
surround
conditions
of
them,
conditions
Pale
One-fourth
as
you
gardens, do
The
About
23
SHRUBS
When
what
closely under
Fig.
AND
VINES,
far
as
transfer
fail to
not
they
Orange
Natural
wild
grow,
Arils
have
serve
oband
not
Size.
possible,by
the
light,shade, temperature, soil,and
same
moist-
24
NATIVE
OUR
A
ure.
plants that
which
of
are
I have
and
Dense
wall.
arranged
to bird
woody
the
lovers
need
no
other
woody plants of
cats,
them
fruit, which
bear
following are
and
crows,
Native
Norway Spruce
2.
Scotch
Pine, Austrian
Pine, and
3.
White
Cedar
and
Cedar.
4.
White
Elm.
N., S.
Wild
Red
and
by
N., S., W.
Cratcegus. N., S., M.,
Choke
and
Cherry
other
wild
Pines.
Native
Haws.
8.
birds.
Spruces.
N., S., M., W.
Mulberries.
of
some
many
Plums.
7.
the
"
1.
-5. Wild
offer
character
hawks,
is eaten
suggested:
and
this
species; they protect
many
fledglingsfrom
also
Copious Branching.
Foliage and
good nestingplaces for
6.
if
explanation.
Trees
The
perish
course,
front
south
specialinterest
Species with
a.
"
exposed
in
groups
further
of
shade-lovingplant will,
planted against an
The
BIRDS
W.
cherries.
N., S.,
M., W.
9.
Wild
Hazel.
N., S.. M., W.
11.
VirginiaCreeper. N., S., M.
Wild
N., S., M.,
Grape Vines.
12.
Wild
13.
Green-Brier.
14.
False
10.
W.
N., S., M., W.
Clematis.
N., S., M.,
Smilax.
Bittersweet.
Celastrus
W.
scandens.
N.,
Southwest.
15.
Honeysuckle.
16.
Mock
Orange.
Lonieera.
N., S., M., W.
Philadelphus. Central, S., W.
TREES,
17.
Meadow-Sweet.
18.
Citrus Trifoliata.
19.
Honey-Locust.
20.
Moonseed.
h.
in
shrub
Menispermum,
N., S.
N., S.
Account
on
and
attracts
migrants:
autumn
1.
Wild
Cherries.
2.
Wild
Currants
3.
Juneberry or
W.
hardy north.
not
G-leditschia.
autumn,
or
early
M.,
Hedge
of their
followingspeciesproduce
summer
and
25
SHRUBS
Spiroea. N., S., M.,
Species Desirable
The
aa.
AND
VINES,
Fruit.
fruit that
ripens
residents
summer
"
N., S., M., W.
Gooseberries.
and
Shadbush.
N., S.,M., W.
Amelanchier
N., S.,
.
W.
4.
Wild
5.
Snowberry.
6.
Dogwood.
7.
Hackberry.
8.
Elder.
9.
Viburnum.
Plums.
N., S., M., W.,
Symplioricarpus. N., S., M.,
Cornus.
Celtis.
Samlmeus.
10.
Mountain
hh.
The
N., S., M., W.
N., S., M.
N., S., M.,
W.
N., S., M., W.
Ash.
followingspeciesproduce
late
in autumn,
the
winter, and
attracts
late
and
migrants
their
northward
remains
on
1.
Hackberry.
2.
Mountain
3.
Red
4.
Wild
5.
False
Southwest.
W.
on
Celtis.
the
twigs into
migrants, winter
through
or
residents,
N., S., M.
N., M., W.
Cedar.
Juniperus. N., S., M.,
Haws.
Oratcegus. N., S., M.,
Bittersweet.
ripens
journey in spring.
Sorbus.
Ash.
fruit that
Celastrus
W.
W.
scandens.
N.,
26
OUR
6.
NATIVE
BIRDS
Wahoo.
or
Burniiig-busli,
S., M., W.
Euonymus.
"
Wild
Rose.
N., S., M., W.
Moonseecl.
Menisperum. N.,
Virginia Creeper. N., S., M.
9.
Fig.
10.
Green-
11.
Box-Elder.
3.
"
A
12.
Sumach.
13.
Holly.
14.
Wild
Foliage :
About
Spray
S.
N., S., ]M., W.
Female
Burning-bush.
The
Smilax.
Brier.
Autumn.
c.
L., N.,
N., S., M., W.
trees.
Fruit
with
One-half
as
Natural
seen
in
Early
Size.
N., S., M., W.
Ihex.
Crab
N., S.
Apple.
Mains.
Following Species Offer
N., S.
Both
Fruit
and
"
1.
Honeysuckle.
Loyiicera.
N., S., M., W.
2.
Chokecherry.
N., S., iM., W.
Dense
TREES,
Fig.
AND
VINES,
3.
Wild
Plum.
4.
Wild
Currant.
5.
Wild
Grape
6.
VirginiaCreeper. N., S., M.,
7.
Elder.
4.
N., S., M., W.
N., S., M., W.
Vines.
Twining
EIGHTH
Wild
8.
N., S., M., W.
Samhucus.
Moonseed
"
27
SHRUBS
W.
N., S., M., W.
on
One-
About
Size.
Natural
Gooseberries.
Willow.
Young
a
Species with
smooth
fruit.
N., S., M., ^Y.
for
Flowers
sunsliine
In
the
are
summer
Hummingbirds.
a
unique
of
1898
"
feature
they were
These
of
little gems
American
birddom.
numerparticularly
of
28
NATIVE
OUR
farms, in the
the
on
ous
and
Minnesota,
northeast
among
fireweeds
AVhile
they are
they
is
flowers
be
do
know,
by
upon
for
a
the
at
one
Suggestions
numberless
cats
and
but
berries
beautiful, showy
birds
hummingfar
as
I
as
encroached
not
are
in
on
Tree
in
Planting
which
July, when
the
and
and
and
one
will
many
stay
city lots,shrubs
fences, and
Managers
and
vines
unsightly corners
in
property
in your
and
of
attract
parks
and
in tliis region,
copses,
Plant
and
groves
should
;
when
appear,
they disof the
some
of box-
groves
willows, and
bathing
more
or
June
your
In
conspicuous
begins and
around
elder, Cottonwood, soft maple, and
birds with
and
"
prairie
our
and
dry season
begin to ripen in the woods
as if suddenly spirited
away.
to under
for Birds.
adorn
now
generallynumerous
earlysummer,
May
are
speciesreferred
your
summer.
a
although I have seen
midair, probably mistaking it
groves
during spring and
On
last
was
English sparrow,
states, birds
the
them
large insect.
General
the
gladiolus
of
little creatures,
from
suffer
not
shoot
sparrow
The
wanted.
bed
a
;
The
gardens where
from
Shore.
ers,
by long-tubed flow-
these
that
suggest
omitted
flitted about
that I observed
of several
not
are
flowers
wild
the
North
the
nearly all flowers.
favorite
their
in
they
raspberriesof
to visit
therefore
I would
them
state, where
the
and
the home
almost
found
also
speciallyattracted
seem
of
one
ern
parks of southeast-
and
towns
I
of
corner
BIRDS
provide
tains
drinking founall
be
they
summer.
placed along
will
beautify
the birds.
of
large private properties
30
OUR
Let
have
ns
bird
NATIVE
islands
BIKDS
make
conditions
wherever
it
possible!
Almost
which
areas
suitable
these
will
in
waste
places with
the
to
known
If you
This
of
the
in which
structure
almshouses.
or
jailand
intended
to
to
accentuate
symbolize
and
mind
the
did
not
worthy
possibly hit
places where
waking
hours
lack
of
upon
their
of
rabbits,
and
much
so
Ichabod
doors
suggest
Crane
ated,
offici-
these
ner
cor-
of
penal
of the
dilapidated
appearance
and
beauty
imagine that, without
the
children
their
in
harmony
the
idea
school
that
and
wealthy, intelligent,
compel
it.
surroundingshe might interpretas
the punishment of the culpritor
I cannot
morals.
in
shelter.
If the windows
"
children, the teacher, or
the
could
the
few
of
out
hunt
may
waste-land
The
its desolate
stalks
a
driven
undoubtedly mistake
kind
township jailsor some
for
shanties
sheds
boy
I
home
flower
extended
stranger would
a
residents
their
dead
be
not
your
Nature.
and
in
nest
protection.
make
shelter
country schoolhouses
many
and
vines
meandering prairiestream
a
in such
Schools
will
winter
quails to
natural
place where
a
will find them
Rural
of
food
quailscould
The
want
birds
trees, shrubs, and
yards along
Minnesota.
agricultural
purposes.
shrubs, trees, and
for
large flock
grasses.
hundred
for
small
possesses
migrants and
them
to
of small
copse
and
he
woods, and
a
owner
locality. Summer
gladly resort
a
land
be utilized
isolated
have
and
cannot
these
Plant
farmer
every
to
youth,
spend
and
his
ing
see-
furniture, he
these
are
the
munities
practicalcom-
one-fifth of the
that
they
would
ATTllACTING
select such
desolate
SONG
shacks
in which
generation to appreciate and
As
long as
the
Fig.
5.
A
Water
"
Twigs
by
person
rural schools
Bulletin
L.
Burnin(;-i5ush
of
Color
H.
make
to
160,
H. Giehler.
who
About
on
Bailey,Cornell
Rural
leave
in
to
the
Red
and
One-third
they ought
the
country
Fruit
is interested
what
"Hints
in
to teach
admire
boys and girlsdo right to
Every
and
little is done
so
31
BIRDS
ing
grow-
beautiful.
life
ant,
pleas-
farms.
Cedar.
Natural
making
be should
School
the
rural
send
Grounds."
From
Size.
life
for
:
By
University,Agricultural Ex-
32
OUR
Station,
periment
NATIVE
BIRDS
Ithaca,
N.
Y.
It
is
free
sent
to
applicants.
bulletin
The
directions
school
be
for
planting
follow
you
have
trees,
shrubs,
and
schools,
and
the
country.!
1
See
Monthly^
Fort
article
an
Experiment
"School
Col.,
Grounds"
and
Experiment
and
Agriculture,
also
the
"The
Chipping
Station,
Notes
of
Food
D.
of
N.
Neb.,
Planting;"
C,
for
Clarence
H.
for
Station,
"The
Weed,
Agricultural
ing
"Ornament"
Maine
U.
S.
for
"Forestry
M.
Science
cultural
Agri-
to
;
"Ornamental
for
to
and
to
;
pamphlets,
two
Chickadees"
by
Colorado
of
spots
Popular
"
soon
homes
Experiment
Plants
Lincoln,
Tree
Sparrow,"
Durham,
for
"Ornamental
Washington,
Winter
of
will
your
Appleton's
also
schools.
beauty
Agricultural
Birds
Maine,
Station,
"Methods
in
to
on
Orono,
Station,
Home
"
Write
the
on
can
you
near
become
Gardens"
1898.
for
birds
mid
will
they
on
February,
Collins,
flowers,
flowers
city
ideas,
Bailey's
explicit
there
and
homes,
city
Professor
out
and
given
suggestions
homes,
rural
to
gives
shrubbery,
trees,
The
and
illustrated
finely
grounds.
applied
If
is
ing"
Plantof
Department
Farmers."
Feeding
Agricultural
See
Habits
ment
Experi-
of
CHAPTER
PROVIDE
NESTING
is
breed
disfigure
tree
or
the
it ;
they
better
no
Where
these
most
direct
person
best
material
trunks
inches
are
in
should
and
work
the
boxes
bird
D
ginia
Vir-
vine
the
hunting,
should
not
having
near
birds,
and
which
they
must
help
a
such
made
planed
33
girls
it.
work
protectors.
that
older
an
far
By
of
from
3
slabs
with
the
is not
one-inch
of
and
new
the
hollow
cavity
material
make
to
if such
sections
weathered,
be
we
bird
in
are
and
Where
be
and
necessary
assist
boxes
not
exist,
mistaken,
be
Boards
good.
generally
keep
dead
a
vine,
grape
enthusiastic
and
rough-sawed,
use
cavities,
Should
boys
much
however
limbs,
as
other
climbing
posts
your
be
real
diameter.
almost
Bird
them
for
and
and
Set
I must
it will
cases
house
go
trees
boxes.
and
make
not
it, you
those
men.
hollow
no
boxes
will
In
than
by nesting
out
cover
to
in
wild
suitable
soon
DOWN
attract
remain.
to
other
compelled
not
are
like
will
vines
and
place, plant
some
CUT
to
way
trees
trees
your
creeper,
best
hollow
hollow
NOT
TREE
The
"
in
old
allow
to
DO
HOLLOW
Directions.
that
birds
AND
BOXES,
EVERY
General
II
8
to
bark
able,
obtainboards.
boards
painted.
and
If
you
34
OUR
to take
have
newly
sawed
Limbs
and
earth.
moist
or
and
the
boxes
be
they may
out,
lumber, rub
trunks
screwed
likelyto
are
BIRDS
with
wood
cut
advisable
late
autumn
The
wood
small
the
of
width
and
box,
kind
any
of the
its
careful attention.
nests
over
should
not
attend
to
exposed
It is
they
branches
of
removed
do not
from
themselves.
noon
should
be
and
left
naturally.
is best
receive
must
their
approach
nesting material
boxes, the birds
boxes
afternoon
between
for
of the
location
to
old
The
in
cut
be used.
like
the
summer
was
trees
ground
The
;
parasites.
adheres
may
the
spaces.
the
to
bark
boxes
on
that
very
must
and
top
be
not
and
sun,
Avill
small
to
cover
ventilation.
secure
not
be
that
openings
If
open
bird
hole, the
from
Birds
wide
wood
of Avood
these
the
on
bark
deciduous
entrance
height
out,
jointsunless
the
On
nails.
rough-barked
bird boxes, but
The
to fasten
in winter, the
or
be bored
cavity cut
a
Do
not nail false bark
carefullymade.
it is never
quite tight and only harbors
It is,however,
with
together again,but
along
open
the boards
of course,
may,
ripped first,then
halves
two
NATIVE
use
absolutelynecessary
and
shaky
are
and
twigs
them.
The
strike
is to
Some
be
on
the
fasten
rattled
value
by
the
boxes
the
wind,
against them,
fasteningmay
strong wires, nails,or
somewhat
are
to
screws,
the
of
tree
the
be
the
to
or
if
birds will
done
method
well.
by
means
depending
which
the
box
fastened.
of the
the
best
boxes
European
observers
of titmice
and
wrens
advocate
with
rounding
sur-
thorns.
NESTING
PROVIDE
of
Twigs
holes
against cats,
find
bluebirds, wrens,
and
pay
so
will
plums
this
answer
securely nailed, screwed,
protect the
to
as
entrance
squirrels,jays,and
crows,
to
It would
be
fastened
otherwise
or
should
They
purpose.
and
haws
wild
our
35
BOXES
how
by experiment
take
nuthatches
shrikes.
titmice,
our
to
boxes
for several
years
thus
protected.
pair of
A
box
house
I had
Avhich
feet from
the
20
feet
about
Another
high.
of
wire
are
Take
two
a
other,
end
of the
barbed
pull
tree
coil
out
barb
elastic
to
to
wire, then
smooth
and
in
for
a
the
wire
number
the
to
too
board
tree
by
wire
wire
closer
the
last
draw
laths.
the
fasten
Next
coils.
lower
the
to
branches
them,
ends
with
tree
and
the
lower
fasten
by
holding the
In
this
way
may
without
years
remain
the
of
means
nail
we
;
tree
the
coils, which
the
protection.
upper
around
figure,and
the
their
or
kind
some
lath, tack
or
is
cats
ground,
The
the
of
the
coils of
several
barbed
the
Wind
wire
wire
and
from
effective is the
more
the
of
end
shown
as
thin
from
feet wide.
2
pieces of
steeple tack.
boards
a
the
trees
young
too
was
feet
5
about
about
narrow
nail the
then
pole
near
protect the boxes
to
way
placed, the
above
one
placed
branches, with
the
barbs
and
a
12
thin, peeled pole,about
a
The
in
cats.
the tree
justbelow
barbed
to
ground
good
surround
to
nailed
for the
smooth
nested
wrens
laths
procure
on
the
hindering
its
growth.
The
entrance
holes
should
be
turned
away
from
the
3i5
prevailing rain
is the
if
protectedby
buildings,the
On
storms.
desirable,but
most
BIRDS
NATIVE
OUR
roof.
overhanging
an
side will
north
the
The
sides
west
be
also
be
will
and
likelyto
are
unless
they
No
shaded.
are
do,
south
hot
too
side
east
box
that
occupied
readilyaccessible
is
to
cats.
Special Directions.
Measurements
in
inches
"
given
are
unless
wise
other-
stated.
1.
ChicJca-
Titmice,
Wrens.
dees, and
of box
measurement
about
it
or
Tree
6.
Trunk
Wire
Barb
with
7x5x5,
and
trunks
on
from
trees
feet
Coils.
place
against out-buildings
of
Fig.
the
inside
below
of the board,
and
the outside.
will
wasps
or
will not
nest
I have
that had
the
in,if
move
bees
as
near
Nail
a
your
the
small
renters.
little last
toward
J
inch
an
have
likelyto
birds
The
inches
largethe English
are
you
trance
en-
referred
to
gatheringplacesof English sparrows.
observed
entrance
too
of
1\
both
little widened
12
to
Size
high.
If the hole is too
the entrance.
sparrows
a
limbs
6
about
in the middle
side
In-
"
the
in
one
house
of the
wren
lower
build
in
corners
a
box
with
38
OUR
Paul, Minn., has had
St.
which
he had
the
with
5.
foliageof
do
the birds
of
boards
thus
under
the nest
the birds
where
do from
of
The
bridges.
the
be
must
beams.
little shelf
A
is also
readily
perch
convenient
a
boys can
or
pieces
laths
projectingroof
a
watch
can
they are protected
favorite nesting places
The
horizontallyto
Near
quently
dwellingsfre-
near
by nailingstripsof
favor
a
constructed
used.
can
roof.
the beams
phoebe are
harmonize
to
as
caps, if
the window
overhanging
for the
so
green
that live
Those
"
on
nesting in boxes,
bluebirds
oaks.
Flycatchers.
an
BIRDS
dark
painted a
build
by
NATIVE
flyinginsects,which
for
from
they
branches, and small dead
wires, posts,dead
trees.
/Swallows.
6.
four
Nail
"
beams
and
and
barns.
The
good
to
ient
conven-
any
sheds, corn-bins, haylofts,
used
boards
Sheltered
also
buildingsare
shelves
rafters in machine
wide.
inches
bracket
be from
may
the
places on
two
to
outside
of
out-buildingsshould
;
have
openings for the birds.
The
7.
almost
will
even
The
inside
should
house
may
of the
box
any
have
no
2J
8.
barred
The
on
inches
Small
be
several
stout
Owls.
owl, short-eared
post
"
about
in diameter
perches. They
a
and
The
seem
on
barn
owl, and
in
painted boards.
10
8
x
to like
the top of
8, the
x
top and
the
near
apartments.
or
nest
right place,it
in the
planed
should
measure
consistingof
be fixed
of
will
bird
This
"
right size
boxes
use
about
entrance
3Iartin.
Purple
a
martin
The
house
a
building.
owl, long-earedowl,
screech
owl
are
bene-
PROVIDE
ficial and
have
should
NESTING
be
If
protected.
sufficiently
largeopenings,the
look after the mice.
and
made
with
from
with
some
few
at
should
small
the
holes
The
will not
Wood
doubt
no
lakes
12
Duck.
and
observe
This
has
the
the
the
in
or
a
of the
breeze, its
a
had
coon
The
gone.
trapper,has burned
even
the
individual,who
primeval forest,because
cottontail,or
Minnesota,
June
some
hoary sires
esting
inter-
where
have
or
a
Even
farmers
for fuel,or
and
in
trees, are
hunter
The
boxes, so
beautiful
homes, the old and hollow
styleshimself
tirely
en-
Bore
open
natural
them
others
in them.
in all settled districts.
cut
Use
results.
decreased
plash
14.
x
be
should
of trees.
of
most
much
14
x
the
in crotches
"
boxes
leave
accumulate
rippleand
still
18
will enter
experiments
The
to
the bottom
into
of all ducks
and
x
top and
be fastened
that rain water
9.
12
x
buildings
owl
that
suggest
largeside opening
open
boxes
16
farm
barn
for them.
nestingboxes
in size
vary
I
39
BOXES
and
a
cut
rel,
squir-
poor
taken
the
refuge in
them.
Boxes
having
attract
24
16
X
X
side
may
be left open.
rivers
boxes
boxes
and
convenient
18
X
openings of
writer, such
the
natural
the wood
16 to 36
with
Place
the
on
lakes.
crotches
suggest that
some
bark
duck.
X
Make
18.
They
4 to 5 inches
to
have
been
trees
Wood
and
veiy
in
on
be
may
diameter,
used
stumps.
shallow
about
provided
or
an
the top
English
Lapland.
places near
frequentlybuild
I would,
boxes
doubtedly
un-
in
well-wooded
ducks
will
the boxes
Masefield,
According
long
them,
on
be
in
therefore,
also
used.
40
NATIVE
OUR
so-called
The
favorite
ox-bows,
of
waters
Concluding
Remarks.
boys
nesting boxes
for
definite
more
from
derived
European
occupied,but
patience if
good
consulted
readers
to them
:
Masejield,Wild
The
pleasure
of his
use
ences.
experi-
birds
native
use
yet
We
to
must,
not
are
and
to observe
to
have
houses."
boxes
the
and
martin
at
once
experiment.
and
will
others
bird
I
lovers.
and
followingpublications
the
have
may
accustomed
our
with
for it.
reward
man's
"white
continue
must
soon
Magazines like Bi7'd Lore^ The Auk^
glad to publish the experience of
have
1.
lose
we
become
our
readers,
experiment
purple
our
of
most
live in the
therefore, not
be
make
should
the
are
my
subject.
rich
a
starling,have
nesting boxes, but
to
the
is
work
that
so
on
birds, like
Some
learn
birds,
bird lover
Every
that
hope
girls,will
and
channel,
river
duck.
I
"
knowledge
such
old
or
wood
the
especiallyour
RIRDS
refer my
^
Bird
Nesting Boxes,
and
Protection
Taylor
Bros., Leeds, England.
2.
Liehe, Nistkiisten
One
of the best treatises
3.
Kobelt, Schutz
4.
Voigt,Unsere
am
5. L. H.
fiir Vogel.
den
on
niitzlichen
the
Hoffmann, Gera, Germany,
subject.
Bechtold
Vogeln.
many.
Co., Wiesbaden, Ger-
"
Gartenvogel.
Theo.
Voigt, Gernrode
Harz, Germany,
The
Baileij,
Birds
University,Ithaca,
The
Tlieo.
hrst
which
costs
can
and
N.
about
be
had
I.
Collegeof Agriculture,Cornell
Y.
50c.,the
for
about
otlier three
15c.
each.
are
lets
pamphNo.
5
is
NESTING
PROVIDE
very
good
for
drawings
and
boys
of
girls,
because
boxes.
nesting
41
BOXES
it
It
is
contains
sent
erous
num-
free
to
applicants.
I
shall
criticism
boxes.
be
from
very
those
glad
who
to
receive
experiment
suggestions
with
and
nesting
III
CHAPTER
It
that
seems
the
attention
little
leaked
had
a
pump,
to
drink
and
in
for
looking
than
and
lawns
birds
the
One
just
the
a
pools,
December
and
open.
was
a
was
bath
zero
in
a
25"
about
another
or
I
when
stream,
The
I
a
when
42
better
and
often
I
spluttering
spray.
that
covered
had
current
number
small
had
of
temperature
was
the
a
saw
the
stream
swift
the
chickadee
a
upon
mer
sum-
water-works,
the
in
the
not
lawns,
batlis
came
F.
the
on
shower
time,
below,
has
town
from
conditions
were
freely sprinkled
where
except
snow,
At
day
the
shelter
and
the
were
taking
or
in
where
bittern
feet
of
abundant
were
drinking
birds
few
a
of
top
great
part
same
warbler
the
on
a
only
pump
the
but
;
gardens
taken
air
farms
the
observed
air
to
summer
that
water
yellow
placed
cup
of Litchfield, Minn.,
the
on
the
a
groves
observed
I have
to.
trough;
dry
nesting, roosting, food,
for
ice
a
very
came
of
prairie town
in
of
During
kinds
all
out
appearanc
dis-
prairie
eagerly drinking
cattle
sudden
The
Western
received
has
supply
birds.
referred
the
one
water
of
our
been
birds
farmhouse.
the
from
through
seen
was
of
species
several
of water
study
birds
already
has
July
the
FOUNTAINS
BATHING
question
in
of
in
AND
DRINKING
PROVIDE
with
kept
it
temperature
of the
of
spar-
house
PROVIDE
drink
rows
from
of
weather
the
saw
4th, 1899, I
of
roof
The
thawing.
in
above
nearest
it
animals
the
not
at
was
about
two
miles
house
all
sparrows
temperature
in
their
may
find
just
was
enough
distance
off the grass
other
running
making
water
such
eat
of
near
and
^
but
there
at
there
a
Basin.
bank
of
supplied by
trees, thus
prey,
stripthe
springs
can
be
snow.
Drinking
a
3 inches
to
but
to
have
should
from
food, seed-eaters
they may
or
snow,
and
is
water
It
be close to shrubs
Where
it
insect-eating
winter, they drink
Bathing
the
stream.
against birds
place for cats
find
drinking place is
which
the
in the
of the
bathing and
gravel to
to
they preferwater
that
Construction
of it in their
places,or
open
little doubt
;
they find enough
Flesh-eatingand
food.
dew
water, unless
have
must
fly some
best
whose
in
was
observed
have
water
snow
may
at
I
8:30
on
ground
water
open
those
of
corner
sunny
about
was
the
on
a
eight feet
freezing.
All
or
This
snow
Frequently
bathing
birds
the
when
morning,
of
house.
my
in
thaAvingsnow
March
flock
small
seeds
On
about
window
the
through
saw
drink.
them
saw
the Minnesota
box-elder
the
on
cold
the
evening grosbeaks
pUice of
point of observation, a
the
away.
feed
never
birds eat the wet,
the
flock of
open
birds
times, but
several
an
near
43
FOUNTAINS
spring. During
open
February,1899, a
I
River.
from
an
for weeks
remained
BATHING
AND
DRIKKING
a
"
sand
The
or
spring or
sloping bottom,
deep. It should
affordingready shelter
should
be
no
hiding
by.
natural
basins
cannot
be furnished, dis
44
KATIVE
OUR
tribute
a
number
garden
and
wood
or
inches
deep
of
of the
these
stand
in
soon
From
the
German
basins
for
offer
arrive
as
in the
of
dry
when
A
to
lawn
suitable
no
be
time
them
below
be
be set out
we
is
make
it from
anchored
near
time
Artificial bird
or
1
to
the
birds
which
yet used.
floating
willow, roots,
3
wood
baskets
old wash
and
inches
streams
Such
the
depth
basins
cleaned
Common,
deep.
will
cannot
be
of
of
floats attached
well
serve
slime
well
From
and
used
for
should
basins.
They
floating
protecting trees or shrubs.
be
a
twigs ;
or
of such
they must
essary
nec-
have
of
or
as
often
gravel banks.
cork
the
to attend
This
not
water
should
thoroughly
or
the
each
early in
or
Voigt, recommends
sand
regulatedby
construction
to
during
are
sprinklers
is constructed
laths
plasterers'
the
to make
tanks, ponds, large park basins,and
is
water
as
sunset
side
in-
Stand
basins
country, because
above
margin j)rojects
the
and
spring.
weather
the
stone
fixed
they must
in
writer, Otto
basin
floating
its
be
3
place a
or
and
birds
weeks
arrive and
so
to time
of
to
girlshave plentyof time
basins,which in dry weather should
in cities
that
time
one
apart.
corner
saucers
evening about
every
as
several
in such
water
laths
2 inches
support may
be
feet, and
2x3
thin
each
should
construct
excavation,
under
small
a
about
suitable
a
Boys
to these
basin
of wood
The
morning.
about
Nail
iix the
saucers
basin
bird
larger basin,
a
middle.
wooden
be renewed
as
in the
firm, or
cleaned.
wish
block
corner.
No
groves.
corrugated tin
basins
small
or
the
If you
glazed.
large flower pot
of
in
BIRDS
in
algse.
very
CHAPTER
BIRDS
FEEDING
AT
by
I
that
hope
her
and
first
The
and
first
invited.
with
groves
garden
space.
from
main
I
"
boughs,
only
toward
of
a
additional
give
corn
board
one
side,
and
on
the
the
of
apple
suet
and
fastened
feet
protection.
and
bread.
A
46
A
from
the
In
shelf
this
at
box
a
I
box
turned
the
trunk
house.
An
to
j)i'ojectedseveral
top
downy
side
closed
tree
pendicular
per-
upon
immediately.
was
twenty-five
is accessible
upon
the
so
or
village.
nuthatches,
almost
wind
feet
hundred
large pieces
and
lawn
marrow
suet
some
still further
broken
the
them
prevailing
some
which
be
to
are
much
settled
Chickadees,
found
the
tree
in
a
the
apple orchard,
an
off, and
closely
a
nailed
also
on
follow
consider
species
are
only
are
with
trunks.
open
birds.
feeding
is to
what
far
not
we
in
street
woodpeckers
birds
surroundings
But
and
tributed
con-
Brattleboro,
girls will
and
boys
feeding
conifers
bones
other
and
in
split bones
put
in
experience
kindly
of
Davenport
consequently
My
of
been
has
example.
thing
environment,
a
B.
much
had
SEASONS
chapter
especially many
precept
"
this
of
UNFAVORABLE
IN
OTHER
Elizabeth
Mrs.
has
who
Vt.,
part
greater
AND
WINTER
IN
WEATHER
The
IV
inches
put
near-by
cracked
window
to
FEEDING
contained
window
but
contained
question of
a
birds
came
the blue
jays were
summer
I
it away
their
to
bird
the
was
alreadyfeeding.
comes
in the
and
young,
and
follow
him, and
so
not
migration
I
be
in.
"
the
If
of
American
the
and
weather,
down,
and
flock
passed and
a
over
from
the
white-croAvned
and
those
decoy, for
a
that
is here
other
flock
was
would
season
of
maple
of
and
the house, to
have
we
in
birds
the
seeds
advantage of
my
of
presence
lure
crust
a
on
this also.
largestit numbered,
alreadymentioned, the hairywoodpecker,
creeper, the pine siskins,redpolls,pine
those
grosbeaks
when
and
down.
in winter, I take
In the winter
besides
seed
first
early one
came
During
from
stragglersto drop
the
migrants which
distance
the
snow
the
carried
brought
I think
till November,
called
some
following
then
greatly as
many
scattered
the
him
I have
ash
trees, and
The
and
continuously
keep hemp
at
by
remains
so
was
named
above
vicinityfirst
feeding.
I value
numbers
otherwise
flock.
purple finch, which
great
It
to the
as
nested
nearer
earlyand
so
seed.
the
from
hung
replenishedconstantly,and
evidently attracted
March,
he
before
the
to
mates
basket
a
the windows
suet
as
for
little broods
nest
the
kept
47
WINTER
only hemp
weeks
added
of these birds
such
the
few
a
freelyto
as
IN
hemp seed, and
and
suet
another
BIRDS
red-breasted
slate-colored
crow
and
a
forty tree
November
migrants
juncoes.
screech
sparrows
till
came,
sparrows,
nuthatches
and
Under
owl
also
formed
April. As,
stress
a
came
part of
the
winter
the white-throated
fox
sparrows,
stopped by
the
and
juncoes,
way,
and
48
NATIVE
OUR
then
residents
summer
onward
the
ruffed
the
invaded
sparrow
been
obligedto
some
measure
placesby
other
justrelated
Since
the
since
species,
above
in
date.
different food
for different
those livinglargelyupon
generally,
The
all take the suet.
pine grosbeaks
say
larvtC of insects
seeds of
anything but
eat
never
I have
disconcertingfactor
that
the
the
time
in
not
refers
English
that
but
number,
the
particularize
birds, but
would
in
food
1896, before
and
with
deal
ever
I Avill not
"
I have
premises.
my
places where
suitable
in
by
quail and
necessarilychanged conditions, for
of
because
in
thmned
Both
migrants.
What
decreased
have
birds
them
1895
of
winter
the ranks
to feed
come
of this town.
residents
to
have
placed for
been
has
reenforced
of the
passage
grouse
BIRDS
and
maple
ash,
from
the
frozen
ground. The
digging them
purple finches preferredto everything else the hemp
often
seed ; next, the sunflower
take
will
the
fond
frozen
that
fine
so
that
prefer the
"
When
1
I have
burdock
in
stayed from
bread.
In
and
to
Wheat
I
in winter
other seed-eaters
The
fed
bread
made
wheat.
one-third
This
difference.
less
and
chipping
hard
so
of two-
crumbles
But
all
bread.
have
a
thaw
in winter
flock
my
observed
large flocks of purple finches feed
spring.
The
one
summer
young,
grows
bread
use
the
and
sparrows,
freezingmakes
wheat
we
of it.
and
meal
corn
is carried
orioles, song
are
sparrows
thirds
bread
and
robins
when
suet, nuts, and
corn,
soaked
much
seed.^
to two
birds
weeks
picked
in the
the
same
seeds
from
locality.
"
on
the
disperses
the
seeds
of
ground and
[Author.
FEEDING
stress
of
weather
began
this
and
one
the
After
inquiry.
by
half
the
Of
be
on
their
ner
man-
intervals
make
there
Should
the
That
with
the
kind
an
feel
you
food
for
provided
dows
it, to win-
deep piazzas,
windows.
They
permit, on
the baskets
expectant
an
indoors
eye
the
if you
intruder
individual
are
memories
places
fere
inter-
the
one
care
birds
of
at
get
fed, I Avould
time, which
been
my
night for
grew
I cannot
us
them
to
not
the
among
if space
demonstrate
be
grants
mi-
mitted.
per-
familiar terms
specially
suggest feeding at regular
on
they
custom
the
with
individuals
same
to
birds which
among
return, I could
always
out
take
lines of
many
under
near
hour, if their
never
up
reallycompanionable terms
often
It has
marked,
range,
anywhere
come
experienceswith
forgotten.
with
sonality
per-
their wishes.
the
write, but
''
the
are
take possessionof
They literally
fear.
with
to
learning to
will
boxes, and
provided, and
"
All
birds
stories,to windows
upper
or
from
the
other, open
into the house, if offered
sit
at first.
at this short
each
once
them, the birds
on
or
opportunitiesfor study
individualityof
speciesto
same
for
in
handling food, changes of plumage, the bearing
of
speciesto other species,and of individuals
of
of
and
storm
a
continually. I
companionship of
the
think
through having them
and
of
the
would
one
to
about
are
love
friends,but
than
more
are
from
work
feathered
these
previous
birds
the
49
WINTER
IN
smaller, but
becomes
or
BIKDS
would
to
have
early comers
recognize.
soon
food
;
but
in
dance
abun-
when
a
50
NATIVE
OUR
had
storm
snow
dawn, and
at
covered
found
come
they
as
flitted
nearer,
with
by
at
one
whole
know
the
tree
almost
me
leisurelyfrom
tree
call
first,then
about
close
were
and
beautiful
a
to
tree,
sight
and
nearer
down
dropping
one
rapidly,till
more
feet.
my
the
always
immediately,and
was
notes,
more
early,just
out
sparrows,
It
gentle
flock
the
orchard.
through
up
it,I always went
that
earliest risers,would
BIRDS
This
the
the
was
only time in the day when they fed quietly. The first
of flashing
a
edge of hunger off,and it was
panorama
wings pursuing
musical
for
and
of protest and
notes
birds
they are
pursued, and
who
have
by
the middle
As
I write,
a
the
pairof
the
quickly penetrate
much
germ,
tree
tongue and
suture
;
is
me
"
and
by
me
an
with
husk
and
!
As
lad
one
the
preface my
observation.
vexed
window,
and
come
go,
apple boughs, where
I
their toes
while
take
out
the
write
of
can
hemp
same
bill till the husk
for that
now
Davenport, when
Let
them
strikingvigorousblows
And
sparrow
the
the
at
are
within
at the
suet
question
put it, What
'
they
living
it ; the
seeds
tween
be-
falls,opening by its
hairy woodpecker
a
jubilant.
chickadees
rolling these
are
sparrows
those of music.
was
nuthatches
quicklythan
more
their
begin to sing softly;
orchard
softlytalkingto each other ;
carrying the hemp seeds to
they deftlymanipulate
but
notes
no
February,at sunrise,they would
"
time
the air,
aggressionfilling
In
of March
all the
four
near
of
do
the
you
feet
of
by.
English
do, INIrs.
in?'
English sparrow gets mixed
own
experiencewith this intruder
This
bird
is
addicted
especially
to
FEEDING
locality;
flock
a
feeding
and
flock has
moving
yards of
the
other
side of the block.
and
away,
birds
the
yet feeds
has
troubled
discover
her
food, I think
It
was
first I
At
would
kept
the
whip
a
of it,did
business
then
week
or
them
to nest
their
on
came
I made
distance
some
and
the
on
from
the
ground.
so
lessen
food
to
the
In
my
flock.
the
windows
I chose
and
the
there
and
troubles
my
winter
Avar-
side permitted
either
following
kept cracked
in
windows
boxes
corn
on
spring I could
the migrants ; it
the
curtail
or
sparrows
I
I made
continuous
The
"
for
hour
one
or
premises,and
keep anything on the ground for
devoured
immediately, and I saw
dispose of
I
that
my
feeding
watched
the
not
was
either
I must
latter,and
of
out
But
on.
day
one
multipliedmany times.
them,
a compromise with
became
me.
answered
two, that
storm
drive
all away,
my
them
trees
send
not
discovered
they
by persistentdriving.
and
hard
accident
will be imminent.
but kept up a
vigilance,
Unfortunatelymy neighbors on
relax
fare.
at
a
a
feet
English
one
they by
battle
before
away
trees
unless
season,
her
years
them
After
the orchard.
the
of
number
a
3^etnot
Should
her.
sparrow
house,
hundred
few
a
side, and
south
the
on
back
the
at
on
large,
a
of her
front
in
grounds
that
has
friend here
tained.
ob-
frequent
with
mix
never
A
to be
there
flock to
one
block, and
back
flock in the
food
the
known
cities,I have
a
breaking up into
the original
only when
on,
the
annoying
circumscribed
certain
over
large for
too
grown
In
51
WINTER
IN"
rarely beyond it, but
territory,and
detachments
JBIRDS
area
and
brought the
it,not
letting
52
OUR
one
even
what
well, but
tell.
I
that
find,too,
the
be
One
of water
"Pans
near
the
their
use
for
to the bird
outside
and
the
of many
a
I
I
fill a
lover.
to
the
then
and
go
note
the
be
chance
the windows.
to
be
eliminated.
as
a
well
struck
The
I think
as
for
"
we
if he does
on
his
commit
the
beautiful
There
even
fall I
have
hours, enjoying
that
is
one
I would
as
cat
might
be and
could
have
One
bell their cats, and
of all,
shoukl
license
law
could be much
nuisance
be
a
cordant
dis-
more
worst
must
esting
inter-
bathe
cat, and
the
comes
and
the
three
depredations.
neighborsto
In
bird
feeding birds.
birds
bath, and
dogs,this
abated, but the neighbor'scat
a
a
many
The
tramp
if
owe
other
within
for
I
They
glimpse
rust.
the
night.
by
neighbor'scat.
for cats
I think
at
always
too
from
these
there.
fiftyrobins
over
the full this
come
they
strongly
dripping-panspainted
them
To
with
freezes
drinking are
use
follows
book
small
water
counted
I
protect
sights common
to
the flock
third,and
a
advocate
cannot
warbler, and
rare
first and
after
this
from
spring,and
shot
bathing and
rightdepth.
to them
might
last
she
Then
house, and
about
are
of
returned.
not
inside
side
it.
easilyget
can
under
is safe
good-sizedone,
a
left till this winter.
have
the
on
cannot
ing
forty-five
degrees,provid-
friends shot two
of my
bring forth, I
put
from
this has worked
years
may
about
other
any
two
suet
incline
bough
bird, while
For
season
any
which
boughs
"
I could.
when
BIRDS
and always drivingthem
alight,
sparrow
the trees
NATIVE
respectedeven
friend prevailed
so
the birds had
54
OUR
NATIVE
BIRDS
Towhee.
Grosbeak.
Rose-breasted
Indigo Bunting.
Scarlet
Tanager.
Purple
Martin.
Cedar
Waxwing.
Northern
Shrike.
Red-eyed
Vireo.
Warbling
Vireo.
Vireo.
Yellow-throated
Blue-headed
Black
Vireo.
Nashville
Warbler.
White
and
AVarbler.
Warbler.
Orange-crowned
Parula
Warbler.
Yellow
Warbler.
Myrtle
Warbler.
Magnolia
Warbler.
Chestnut-sided
Warbler.
Black-pollWarbler.
Warbler.
Blackburnian
Green
Black-throated
Palm
bler.
War-
Warbler.
Oven-bird.
Water
Thrush.
Maryland
Yellow-throat.
W^arbler.
Wilson's
American
Redstart.
Catbird.
Brown
Thrasher.
House
Wren.
Brown
Creeper.
White-breasted
Red-breasted
Nuthatch.
Nuthatch.
FEEDING
735.
Chickadee.
748.
Golden-crowned
749.
Ruby-crowned Kinglet.
755.
Wood
North
Kinglet.
Thrush.
numbers
The
IN
BIRDS
American
refer to the
Birds
55
WINTER
756.
Wilson's
758a.
Olive-backed
761.
American
766.
Bluebird.
second
Thrush.
Robin,
of the
edition
the American
publishedby
Thrush.
of
Check-List
Ornithologists'
Union.
on
crowded
somewhat
a
visitors
only frequentwinter
The
residence
I have
in St. Paul,
chickadees,
street, are
woodpeckers, nuthatches, blue jays,and English
A
few days ago, however, a flock of
sparrows.
downy
evening grosbeaks
I have
bearing box-elder
birds
and
is
attract
can
you
the
ate
surroundings.
seeds
the
on
the
on
The
lot.
number
largelygoverned by
In
middle
the
seed-
only
the
and
of
ity
local-
southern
regularfeeding will probably attract a greater
in the
number
be
attracted
of species than
can
The
best
in Canada.
and
northern
states
feeding
states
those
placesare
that
Fringes of
them.
lakes,
street
have
brush
trees, and
Feeding places should
noise
of
disturbs
people passingat
than
begins
seeds of
The
some
to
and
wild
drop, also
along
distance
much
hemp
and
the
seed
ragweeds, the
maple, ash, box-elder, birches, and
stalks of sunflowers,hemp, and
less
collect the heads
sunflowers,just before
collect
noise
noise, and
them
annoy
autumn
roads.
by cats, dogs,
intermittent
an
and
streams
continuous
uniform,
In the
leading to
bird
such
are
disturbed
be
A
roads
bird
timber
hedges
less than
peoplestopping.
of cultivated
and
not
factories,etc.
the birds
several
other
other
trees.
plantsstuck
56
NATIVE
OUR
into the
much
autumn
and
rats
be
must
cannot
birds will have
the
their
the
do
on
the
seeds
when
of cucumbers, melons,
birds
be
can
or
Tie
cats.
walnuts, and
hole
out, the
a
shell
branches
nuts
to
and
fond
young
seen
young
of greens.
grass
the
They
just like
slate-colored
knotgrass
or
the
a
story,as
the fun,
small
green
ever-
convenient
that
is safe
meat, suet, split
tree.
your
the
a
near
If you
can
be
kernel
has
suet.
On
bore
a
pended
firmly sus-
been
such
eaten
trees
other birds will
gymnastic performances. Nearly all
are
to
stringsof
watch
Fasten
:
unsalted
filled with
chickadees
what
make
and
split nut
After
be
meat
feedingand observing
the second
shell, the
may
with
salted
know
not
other tree
some
string.
will grease
squash,and pumpkins.
trees
follows
bits of raw,
other
the
into
by
and
of
preferablyin
window,
from
arranged as
branch
a
dropped
to boughs
and
No
them
for
interestingdevice
Another
not
birds
the
them.
birds discover
the
the
strings into
these
Throw
do
children
mice
late,or
too
nailed
fly well.
in
will be left.
weather
Avarm
evening, let
long winter
a
in
cannot
If your
be fed.
where
have
large,otherwise
greased wings they
should
that
suet
them
place
kernel
a
of fat and
witli
wings
not
seeds
the
collected
some
or
afford
seeds
be collected
not
Pieces
be too
not
All
in
them,
must
eaten
ground.
should
stored
at
get
of all kinds
Weeds
to
the observer.
pleasureto
the
the birds and
eagerlysought by
are
snow
BIRDS
eat
young
domestic
give pretty
seed-eatingbirds
herbs
and
chickens.
tender
I have
juncoesfeast on a pasture of very
doorweed.
Polygonum aviculare^
Fig.
8.
"
The
Birds'
Christmas
Tree.
58
XATIYE
OUR
and
in
spring I
earl}'-
feed
on
the first grass
of the
Christmas
in
late
how
see
them
the
it in
feed
them
must
sleep on
away
in
snow
severe
be
bed.
The
that
you
you
in
do
a
and
short
very
the
makes
of
easilydie
not
coated
become
skating-parkof
a
starvation
Special
Feeding-places
a
Elevated
board
Boards.
some
2.
not
too
Field
Places.
"
tucked
them
very
and
they
lasts.
starve
trees, the weeds,
Such
but
Aveather
it
means
feed them.
Groups
Different
Nail
lasts
size,then
around
nail
the
Feed
the
edge
board
from
of
zontally
hori-
seeds of
nuts, mast, bits of cooked
salt,suet,
Tliey
storm
town,
pumpkin, hemp, timothy, seed
meat
get
for-
are
up
ice.
you
suitable branches.
loft,bits of cracked
not
Birds
"
of convenient
to
with
for
OF
1.
the
the whole
birds unless
to many
of
alone, but they
Sometimes
time.
ground
cold
do
makes
hungry, but often all their food is covered
cannot
fly to other regions while the
Birds
some
storms.
cold
or
grass
kale.
holes, while
in
or
grass
feeding place,
It may
and
or
young
usual
sure
warm
your
the
the birds at all,be
trees
melting
a special
grain
some
chopped cabbage and
sudden
in
the
by
to prepare
the
like it.
birds
will also eat
If you
wish
Chop
autnmn.
English sparrows
nncovered
was
birds,sow
grain quite fine, place
and
the
seen
children
for the
treat
boxes
in
have
that
If yon
snow.
BIRDS
the
or
flower,
sun-
hay
raw
etc.
The
food
is
placed on
the
ground.
FEEDING
The
should
location
several
Place
the
from
BIRDS
be
of
rows
the
These
poles.
birds.
Feed
grain,cracked
advises
kind
any
of dead
and
houses,
such
food
birds
A
"
4.
for
be
hear
placed
molested, become
under
the
will
the
no
cat
crows,
small
ravens,
good opportunities
not
too
ous
numer-
made
Having
venture
to
be
say
very
try this plan,
Ruffed
Grouse
die
sometimes
by
tridge,
Par-
or
with
winters
severe
heavy
the
dred,
hun-
Quails, if not
prairiestates.
tame, and a good place to feed
bin
corn
of them
to
or
under
spring upon
can
under
Prairie-chickens
naturallycome
reports
become
do
may
grouse
very
large flocks
farmhouse.
In
"
especiallyin
seen
had
on
farms,
numerous
result,but should
those who
Quail.
ground
from
specimens.
injury may
snowfall, quail and
shelter,where
to
offered
point,I
this
on
from
small
offal,and
the
on
distances
Feeding Prairie-Chickens,
is
and
to
the
to
protect partridgesand
to
procuring rare
or
straw
or
writer, K. T. Liebe,
depredationsof hawks,
the
and
them
hay
hay loft,waste
considerable
has served
benefit
glad to
of
fingerposts
German
animal
at
observations
what
weeds, sunflower
as
jays,and magpies. It has also
for decimating speciesthat
no
few
a
villages.According
from
and
ground radiating
spoiled meat, entrails,butchers'
heights
open
the
handful
the
timber.
or
etc.
Places.
that
Tie
loose
from
corn,
Carrion
3.
in
poles serve
seed
trees
some
poles
a
59
WINTER
near
feeding place.
heads, thistle heads,
IN
a
are
the
much
place where
similar
some
them.
corn
I have
bin
wilder.
some
near
a
They
shocks
of
60
cornstalks, or
corn,
If the
near
uncut
place is sheltered
some
brush
Fig.
9.
and
"
a
BIRDS
NATIVE
OFR
corn
from
timber,
Feedixg
House
left
are
on
the
prevailingwinds
it
will
for
prove
Birds.
a
field.
and
very
CHAPTER
V
MISCELLANEOUS
Dust
Nesting Material,
and
city parks
desirable
to
places.
While
dirty,
In
of
wool,
similar
from
the
for nest
of
he
his
]\Iany birds
such
before
Set
use,
the
in
All
I have
like
also
dust
on
to
dust
and
at
freezes
dust
receptacles
same
badly damaged
gallinaceous
the
birds
bath
it
to
brown
the
dry ground
are
thrush
house
that
soil
provided
of
rim
62
fond
of
enjoy
frozen
paired
re-
Avinter.
into
dust
one,
trying
hard
good
is
be
beginning
their
on
in winter.
even
should
sparrows
was
feet
it.
places, protected like drinking
sunny
seen
few
a
bird
the
at
supply
The
pulverized garden
of
his
need
placed
dust
supply
in
strings were
had
a
other
was
pull
to
tufts
rags,
lay only
once.
storm
take
or
a
repeatedly observed
in
a
hard
horse
and
that
oriole
clean.
of
use
hay, straw,
some
them
ground
shallow
ground
When
nesting
kept
are
threads,
net, which
minnow
after
road
Common
for
a
used
nest,
of
be
mostly painfully
are
lots
tried
building
boat-house.
ground,
bits
Baltimore
A
besides
readily make
will
flax, pieces of
material.
a
and
parks,
mattresses,
cotton,
strings out
large
In
"
frequently
may
material
at
birds
the
old
of material
of
streets,
places
from
hairs
towns
our
it
Lime.
and
Gravel,
lots
city
on
provide nesting
certain
such
Baths,
the
tains.
foun-
baths.
and
have
to
bathe
and
solid.
63
MISCELLANEOUS
In wild
unsettled
and
of
baths
dust
old unused
native
lumber
Nearly
the
snow
blackbirds
had
and
zero,
from
of
field
to roost
birds
the
so
take
of
shells
egg
birds
their
into
crushed
limestone,
in the
shells
of their
birds also need
body's
extra
an
I would
suggest
ground
coffee
that
near
burnt
bones
and
ansAver
the
purpose
all
the
birds
eggs.
own
very
gravel
hundred
after
and
It is
of
Some
lime
gravel
which
demand
for
quite likelythat
in
in
bits
well, and
can
the
wild
spring,and
as
feeding places.
shells
is
marble,
shells,and
lime
In
lime
bits of
clam
the
water.
or
eat
of
egg
and
they
just
feedingplaces.
it be scattered
crushed
August
three
food
will
amount
their
ture
tempera-
warm
rushes.
consist
oyster
a
of
with
domestic
that
great
the
about
bodies
egg-layingseason
in need
feedinggrounds
should, therefore,be placed near
The
on
dessert
a
their
they retired
once
flock
a
picking up
returned
before
of
pick gravel from
sparrow
citysidewalks, when
on
observed
I
evening
placeson
evidentlymost
are
the house
seen
about
was
dry, sunny
the
piecesof gravel or grit. Aquatic birds,
I have
ice and
found
roads.
birds,and seed-eaters
of it.
in
sparrows
often
birds, excepting,I believe, the birds
all
prey, swallow
shore
districts I have
will
be
large
as
Crushed
probably
prepared
by ever3^body.
See
:
Liebe.
Futterplatzefiir Yogel
im
Winter.
Theodore
mann,
Hoff-
Gera, Gei-many.
Borggreve.
Die
Germany.
Vogelsclmtzfrage. Hugo
Voigt, Leipsic,
VI
CHAPTER
PROTECTING
BIRDS
THE
FROM
NATURAL
THEIR
ENEMIES
Cats.
foremost
The
"
destroyers must,
house
the
to
between
The
feralized
cat,
woods.
This
and
he
poisoned
sportsman.
very
severe
opportunity
in
of
of
the
I have
heard
skunk
hole
during
In
town,
city,
which
goes
from
occasions
the
and
farm
of
such
country,
farm,
C4
we
or
the
the
birds,
however,
much
and
have
from
therefore
the
summer
their
most
by
shot,
trapped,
and
by
every
farmhouses
afford
a
of
his
use
cats
of
life
gophers,
to
feralized
winter
severe
to
for
in
birds
Such
boy
wild
be
come
tinguish
dis-
to
the
suffer
them
farmer
pair
a
of
that
is
during
should
woods
districts
mice,
eggs
lover
weather.
to
and
cats
a
are,
naturally
every
Some
to
eggs
and
These
by
and
assigned
learns
mice,
on
be
the
never
returned
gophers
birds
of
country
lives
birds
on
destructiveness.
or
cat
birds
Ground
months.
mice.
has
than
largely
and
and
creature
catch
to
lives
that
one
Young
eggs.
easier
birds
injurious
most
beast
bird
song
said,
already
trees
as
all
among
lialf-wild
Avell
as
have
we
as
cat, this
roofs
climbs
place
in
good
gun.
living
in
a
1898-99.
the
house
tramp
to
cat,
house,
ENEMIES
as
tramps,
to eliminate
Any method
Davenport puts it, is perfectly
Mrs.
as
All
proper.
The
next
under
the
too
Some
and
men
controlled
if you
than
cats
for the
care
of all that
be
license
law
enforced.
of bird
would
It would
be very
of wire
netting from
of
this
be from
be
nail
to
to
J
the
to
keep
to
for
been
has
could
it
the
expose
the
between
wide.
cross
6
to
Near
10
the
Another
pieces from
be
advocates
at
To
cause.
high.
from
space
1 inch
pose
dis-
said,
not
present
one
Avho
a
fence
trouble, I recommend
fasten
posts
cats
more
promptly
as
that
6 to 8 feet
The
and
but,
necessary,
ridicule,which
and
netting
close, sharp barbs.
should
fear
I
undesirable
can
large barns
in
not
would,
cats
some
expense
do
mice
bird-huntingproclivities.
also tend
protectionto
will go to the
edge
for town
good thing, but
a
and
and
regularly,
marked
show
cats, it is
carpentry
often
and
birds, then
lead double
Some
and
is
pantry.
your
cityhouses
farms
need, feed them
you
bites,
or
to
lives.
masonry
useful
are
in
known
most
On
kitty,wdio sleeps
mice
been
double
by good
poison.
and
by traps
good mouse
the
mice, but in
the
as
pinches her tail,and
or
have
fields,
ous
nefari-
are
scratches
never
hurt
in
habitations
dear
own
ears
all lead
cats
They
human
day,
dogs
true, will catch
A
all
stove
lives,but
by
is your
cat
baby pulls her
sweet-tempered to
when
killed.
be
slayers,that use
their operations.
of
base
about
habituallyprowling
cats
woods, and parks,should
bird
65
BIRDS
dictates.
its inclination
these
OF
the
upper
wires, with
barb
way
10
wires
would
to
18
66
NATIVE
OUR
These
long.
Indies
angles
to
pieces
outside.
the
closely-drawnwires
by
barbed
of
coil
a
will
think,
keep
meshes
The
and
ornamental
and
does
will
be
net
:
of
the
must
receive
made
also
as
on
is the
them
be
of
fences
In
or
several
the
Fresh
coils
necessary.
it to
following
this
The
the
trunk
string
a
around
with
rope
tar
tarred
a
must
rope
tlie trees.
crawlingup
preventing cats
following; cut a piece
time
to
have
of
height
tar.
of
applications
of
fasten
in
the
of
coils
on,
netting,a
time
you
fact,
climb
more
From
or
sections,
to
wire
protectedin
cover
tar.
feet
cats
of
jump
Apple,
in your
rojje, until
they become
the bias and
ground,
can
INIock
for
too
support for
applicationof
fresh
Wind
then
means
be
such
as
grows
results.
from
keeps caterpillars
Another
trees
a
6
net
may
fibres.
coating
cats
of
Instead
piece of
a
tree, and
thick
be
unravel
guests.
the
near
I
kind,
not
course,
the
enough
good
trees
on
that
which
as
pieces
unbidden
appearance
purpose.
with
loose
the
from
which
wood
used
Nests
way
left
The
strong, w^ell-tarred fish
the
holes
trees
climber
form
not
answer
may
of
edge
cross
lohata^Green.
3Iicram])elis
Cucumber,
any
of
wingless
climbing plants,such
annual
Wild
no
of the
must,
barbed
few
A
horizontal
fence
improved by using
much
be
can
be
must
A
pieces by
cross
outer
ends
outer
wire
enclosure.
the
into
netting.
all
out
posts,walls, or
no
wire
wire.
the
in
large,there
these
the
Cover
of this fence.
project at right
Connect
by
or
should
strung along the
be
should
wires
BIRDS
from
of
climbing
Avire
like
a
netting
hat
rim.
ENEMIES
The
end
cut
of the wires
one
is
A
mother
plans
equally
adapted
tries hard
who
the
most
prevent
bird
against
means
Fence.
Cat-proof
of
use.
of
such
must
Seen
their
without
young
lover
his
as
to
A
ground
from
girFs
frocks
to
the
also
birds.
In
license
neighbors' dogs
after
he
law,
neighborlyfeeling,
the
In
nuisances.
look
inside.
the
master
of the
rigid enforcement
a
every
"
and
nests
towns
him
10.
hunting
Dogs
every
fence.
net
Fig,
little
a
reasonably object
moderately clean, might
tarred
not
surroundings.
all
to
keep
to
an
tabbies.
suggested, because
are
well
form
downward
pointmg
against adventurous
effective barrier
Various
67
BIRDS
OF
his
must
and
own
destroy
cities
and
law
will
country
dogs, and
employ
such
allow
discretioi;!
NATIVE
OUR
DO
Chipmunks.
Squirrels and
these
animals,
many
eggs
is
he
whether
himself
of
lover
all
sacrifice
he
the
lover
decide
must
birds
whether
shoot
bird
every
nature,
or
tliat
proved
squirrel,destroy
As
some
chipmunks,
birds, and
to
reel
birds.
young
will
squirrelsand
Tt is well
"
especially the
and
generally a
BIRDS
and
he
keep
will
the
restrict
amusing, friskylittle
rodents.
Foxes,
Weasels, Minks, Skunks,
of
view, let
look
to
For
that
by
sweetly singing
very
the
Indian
wild
of
Department
called
"
has
shown
United
Tliese
Owls
tlie duck
are
sharpened.
and
keep
us
of
some
us.
Jays.
The
"
admirable
an
the
from
United
States
pamphlet
Standpoint of
conclusivelythat
of
about
the
fifty
owls
investigated,only four
speciesare actuallyinjurious.
States
Cooper's hawk,
the
hawk,
the
sharp-shinnedhawk,
goshawk.
About
species
ten
chieflybeneficial,and
harmful
qualitiesbalance.
wholly beneficial,thirtyare
are
in
about
and
hawks
species of
Let
Agriculture,in
and
common
birds.
creatures
Hawks
Farmer,"
body
some-
not
Owls, Crows, and
Hawks,
point
have
their wits
to
enjoy livingin a world
by very good people and
exclusively
inhabited
was
regard
lover's
birds must
keep
to
part, I could
own
my
for and
out
The
alone.
nature
In
"
tlie bird
say, from
would
animals, I
these
etc.
the
seven
This
shows
beneficial
that
he
knows
times
out
of ten
when
he shoots
unless
and
nobody
exactlywhat
the
a
farmer
hawk
or
kill
should
hawk
species he
kills
an
a
one
owl.
or
an
kills.
of his best
owl
Nine
friends,
70
OUR
tain
also be referred
bring the results
people,and here
workers
the necessary
act
is
of
and
a
and
the
noble
and
people and
of
missions
For
"
the
county
therefore
owls, hawks, and
eagles.
the twitter
warbler, but
the
of the
be
found
give
them
assistance.
teachers
life,not
in
simply
There
kite
and
and
jays,it
Their
newspapers.
that
the
on
conclusion, T would
of
more
motto.
communications
publish
the
to
the universities
the
generally intelligentmen
are
soaring
if teachers
secondary schools.
our
must
and
girlswill
work,
between
We
harvest
to
of encouragement
overlook
not
editors
of
to time.
books
home
investigators
field white
Boys
the
school," is
Do
In
is
amount
one
common
for the
scientific
mediators
as
time
of
in this kind
scientific
popular
from
to
needed.
are
enthusiastic
to
BIRDS
public library,new
a
might
To
NATIVE
glad
are
topics just
say
be
may
there
is
majesty in
Do
:
shoot
not
in
sweetness
grandeur in
the
cussed.
dis-
flightof
the
the
eagle.
About
crows
are
birds.
The
guiltyof
crow
must,
and
beneficial,
sins
many
in
by
but
summer
weather
were
trees
of
the
and
those
scarce
January
the
who
may
only native
chimney tops
said that
mischief
some
be
however,
among
classed
doubtedly
they un-
smaller
as
erally
gen-
jay will certainlybe forgiven
birds
live where
are
plentiful
During
the very
cold
February, 1899,
the blue
jays
in Avinter.
and
be
birds
that
in the
cityof
daily,tlieir sky-blueplumage
was
called
merrily
St. Paul.
from
Almost
displayed amongst
ENEMIES
the
brown
oak
to
lard
from
also
deserve
your
away.
them
the
credit
homes,
you
into
for
being
find
you
can
too
easily
71
BIRDS
how
carrying
veranda
If
sparrows.
and
leaves,
observe
was
OF
mteresting
pieces
their
oak
able
the
and
crows
them
The
whip
out
or
it
leaf
fried-out
groves.
to
many
thin
of
sight
a
jays
English
jays
drive
near
them
CHAPTER
THE
The
as
a
should
be
be
factor
where
favorable
rapidly
until
house
or
illustrations
this
in
sparrow
are
the
a
species
new
and
spread
barrier.
English
and
country
or
continent
multiply
impassable
new
a
in
ing
disturb-
a
the
an
sing
to
the
on
it will
is
animal
an
If
wide
probably
introduce
we
introduced.
it meets
Ocean
has
take
a
countries
began
household
conditions,
remarlvable
most
is
by
both
and
birds
barrier,
nature's
of
Atlantic
we
America
Asia
life
Wlien
introduce
North
with
since
wide
would
birds,
most
forests.
species
who
The
should
sparrow
If
animal
barrier
into
the
finds
and
to
this
across
people
affected.
a
primeval
plant
all
English
connected
barrier
such
as
the
continent.
more
deeply
QUESTION
of
this
plant
impassable
existed
to
to
once
the
isthmus,
would
warning
birds
foreign
the
SPARROW
ENGLISH
multiplication
serve
YII
The
sparrow,
the
rabbit
in
song
birds
in
Australia.
The
house
much
far
the
same
as
I
know,
caused
a
decrease
not
of
our
in
this
be
song
affects
sparrow
that
way
it
is
of
not
influences
claimed
that
birds.
The
is due
to
it will
enormous
the
72
our
We
cause
the
directly
need,
fore,
there-
disappearance
increase
following
As
own.
it has
that
birds.
European
alarmed
country
it
European
causes
of
the
:
"
bird
There
1.
and
not
kept
clean.
unlimited
almost
yards and
in
streets
are
houses, outbuildings,
our
offer
structures
nesting facilities.
decreased
have
We
3.
the
nesting
facilities of
our
by cuttingold trees and brush near towns
cities.
Our
severelycut lawns and parks, with
able
large trees and very little shrubbery,furnish suitbirds
native
few
of
bird scavenger
a
sheds, railwaydepots,and other
lumber
and
construction
The
for
back
cities,where
towns
T3
QUESTION
certainlyroom
was
our
2.
SPARROW
ENGLISH
THE
roosting placesfor only a
nesting and
few
native
birds.
English
The
4.
food
much
railroad
farm-yards and
decimating dangers
omnivorous,
yards, around
back
in
findingin
sparrow,
of
is seldom
yards, is
the
winter
so
elevators, mills,
not
subjectto
being hardy
the
and
migration,and
exposed to starvation during the
winter.
human
habitations, it is
always lives near
little exposed to its natural enemies, except the house
As
5.
it
known
a
an
Sunday, and
then
life looks
passes
over
a
experience
an
almost
it to
of bird-kind.
sparrow
to
I have
in
nest
a
place
to cats.
blocks
gloomy
town
beginson
storm
starved.
are
and
years, enable
enemy
English
snow
severe
over
of them
of
this arch
readilyaccessible
If
cunning,
thousands
extending over
entirelyavoid
never
and
wariness
Its
cat.
at
the
street
Saturday,continues
traffic on
Monday,
for the bold
chirpers,and
many
If
rain
hail
storm
a
severe
night
before
the
or
young
have
74
NATIVE
OUR
become
under
in
eaves,
The
6.
bird
feeder.
salt
a
dead
insects
trees
on
other
begun roosting
protected places,
are
about
the
with
them.
much
prolificbreeder, and
take
catch
and
ground
and
have
interfere
which
is
It will
and
water,
birds
perish. These
also
accidents
weather
the
sheds, barns,
of them
many
and
before
hardy, or
BIRDS
pork, and, if
the
wing
it will eat
;
omnivorous
an
minnows
floating
on
it will nest
necessary,
the
on
as
well
as
grass
of the
out
well
as
only
as
grain
all kinds
on
of trees.
bird
A
thus
of all creatures
winds, and
equipped
is
that
spread wings
ever
justdescribed
it has
under
it lives
long as
as
of the
certainlyone
fittest
all kinds
to
the favorable
it will continue
of
ditions
con-
multiplyuntil
to
filled the land.
Injury
caused
and
good
instance,
To
because
by
I
know
control
to
trees.
it drives
House
agriculturistthe
harm.
as
the
by
the
its bold,
away
the
bird
that
lover
To
"
does
the
about
it has
box-elder
the
bird
Sparrow.
done
dener
garmuch
as
much,
leaf roller
on
for
my
it is
mainly objectionable
and
pugilistic,
mobbing proclivities
more
desirable
and
beneficial native
birds.
How
can
the Sparrows
extermination
state
treasuries, without
extent.
1
Book
See
of
of the
public bounties
or
be kept in Check
bird
will
harming
?
"
The
plete
com-
and
impossibility,
only deplete the respective
is
the
an
sparrow
to
any
great
1
"Extermination
the
Department
of
Noxious
Animals
of Agriculture^ 1896.
by Bounties."
Year
THE
I suggest the
1.
We
free
2.
Do
not
3.
Do
not
roost
allow
they seek
half
an
hour
turn
the
will
that
been
of
more
three
communication,
which
"
our
disposal. He
I think
it
drive them
shoot
from
These
furnished
a
very
not
multipliedand
as
thus
far
the stock
had
a
in the
has
follows:
following
for future
that
bolder
with
in whatever
way
the
number
seen,
of
some
birds
to
escaped.
multitudes.
were
the
"
quantityof
a
of
kindly placed
1889
of
course,
of the sparrows
tioned
men-
method
Bond, editor
autumn
imported
became
they
permanently producing
Frank
writes
flock
small
after
means
pest is outlined
Mr.
and
times.
all the
traps, and, of
few
A
good
them,
away,
only reallysuccessful
in the
was
trap shooters
year
them, shoot
Trllnine,Cheyenne, Wyo.
Wyoming
weather
warm
premises.
four
The
sparrow
at my
simply
left for
that
fightingthe
In
Catch
makeshifts
result.
premises.
your
in
your
or
think, however,
desired
or
ni}^ trees
on
on
roost.
sunset.
desert
soon
will prove
the
to
"
In cold
large numbers.
sheltered places,retiringabout
them,
on
disturbed
I
them
before
roosted
to nest
trees, often
weather
they
them
allow
hose
for
them:
controlling
yards
keep our streets, back yards,and farmpossiblefrom waste grain and offal.
as
on
75
QUESTION
followingmeans
must
as
they
SPARROAY
ENGLISH
but
For
as
they
numbers,
they soon
attracted
attention.
I began shootingand
ing
poisonmy
them, gettingpermission from the city government
to pursue
the work
Carrying on
keeping their
a
regular campaign, I
numbers
so
reduced
I
thought desirable.
have
that
succeeded
they have
in
not
76
OUR
in any
interfered
way
the
publicor
which
of
either
increased
with
the
of the
greatly
in
parks.
We
and
trees
our
the midst
BIRDS
breeding and pleasureof
have
growth
NATIVE
'
great desert
'
pleasureof
native
our
numbers
birds,
with
the
down
set
were
the
thirty-twoyears
in
ago,
with
nothing largerthan plain'sgrass to cast a shadow
in our
neighborhood. Our
city now, thanks to the
of her people,is an oasis,through arboriculture,
energy
and the birds of the plainsand
lower
mountains
have
dwell
to
come
great
measure,
house
sparrow.
has
with
that
tured, unless
a
time
the
in
more
than
than
There
be
may
into
a
but
uncap-
been
thorough
last
much
search
live sparrow
only one
more,
the
work
escaped
there
effective
take
are
mix
met
region poisonedwhole
engine
small
two
failures I have
the
satisfied that in this
each, and
winter's
number
able to find
of
forty birds
thirtyor
usual, for after
was
going
is the most
"I
destruction
close of my
that
interest, in
tainly
cer-
many.
"Without
am
the
their
this winter, 1898-99, has
ago, I
city.
not
I
than
successful
short
the
in
was
began
more
work
spring. My
more
I
I think
left
never
It
us.
of
bottles
wheat
war.
of
with
the contents
with,
strychnine,one
about
three
dram
quarts of
Avater, boilinguntil the
poison is thoroughly dissolved,
the
Into
hot
to
using boiling water
begin with.
I stir nearly if not quite,a peck of
poisoned water
wheat,
hours.
and
then
The
greatly.
set
grain
I then
the
mixture
absorbs
aside
all the
spread the grain
for
water
over
the
forty-eight
and
swells
bottom
of
78
story windows,
OUR
NATIVE
which
the
in their list of
The
destruction
small
In
boys.
BIRDS
have
sparrows
not
yet
closed
en-
proscribedlocalities.
of the
and
towns
must
sparrows
cities the
be left to
not
work
should
be
undertaken
by competent persons authorized or engaged
be exercised
must
by the municipality. Great care
in handling strychnine.
Where
the
the
sparrows
in
parks,and
to the
farms.
on
impossiblethat
degree accustom
red -headed
think, have
alreadylearned
Last
examining
winter
soft
a
if he
as
suddenly the
and
to
a
intended
more
to other
birds.
birds will to
some
Robins,
sparrows.
to hold
their
own
drew
sparrow
learn
the
turned
fully.
success-
woodpecker
downy
a
A
to
gardens,
downy woodpeckers,I
and
little carpenter
him
gave
to the
out,
largelyrestricted
native
by
I watched
maple.
in
cities and
native
themselves
purple martins,
and
our
carried
are
numerous
will be
They
inhabited
not
are
too
of towns
streets
localities that
close
become
will not
business
It is not
just described
measures
up
trade
downy's
his
upon
very
;
tor
specta-
drew
peck, and the sparrow withrespectfuldistance without an attempt
a
vicious
at retaliation.
Moreover,
deserve
in
my
of snowdrifts
world
confess
must
the
back
;
little creatures
plucky,wary
consideration
some
I
the
and
sparrow
birds.
interesting
that
yard
to
if not
I
is
He
an
tion.
little admiraflock
shroud-like
and
its
undoubtedly
is
a
prefer a
the
in its habits
even
one
certainly
of
rows
spar-
loneliness
conquest of
of
the
the
most
unequivocal imperialist
THE
and
been
has
most
musical
down
to
79
QUESTION
in
desire
you
and
annexing
live with
beautiful
our
you,
holding
and
keep
must
you
the sparrows.
Frank
Bond
the
than
largenumber
been
refer to the
have
English
second
from
miles
would
sparrow,
exterminated
Birds
Union.
three
of these birds
the
by
American
the
me
been
followinglist
edition
at
the
be
None
were
city limits.
more
if that
Cheyenne.
or
the American
less
A
noyed
an-
pest
had
The
numbers
of the Check-List
publishedby
in and
taken
city of Cheyenne, Wyoming.
more
almost
has furnished
birds which
mostly western
taken
successful
birds
native
Mr.
near
SPAKROW
Still,if
territories.
new
of
ENGLISH
not
of North
gists'
Ornitholo-
80
OUR
NATIVE
BIRDS
Shrike.
Northern
Shrike.
Wliite-rumped
Red-eyed
Vireo.
Warbler.
Orange-crowned
Tennessee
Warbler.
Parula
AVarbler.
Yellow
Warbler.
Myrtle Warbler.
Warbler.
Audubon's
Black
-poll AVarbler.
Grinnell's
Water
Thrush.
Macgillivray'sWarbler.
Western
Yellow-throat.
Wilson's
Warbler.
American
Redstart.
Sprague's Pipit.
American
Sage
Dipper.
Thrasher.
Catbird.
Rock
Wren.
Parkman's
Brown
Wren.
Creeper.
Mexican
Creeper.
Red-breasted
Pygmy
Mountain
Nuthatch.
Nuthatch.
Chickadee.
Ruby-crowned
Townsend's
Kinglet.
Solitaire.
Russet-backed
American
Western
Mountain
Thrush.
Robin.
Robin.
Bluebird.
CHAPTER
ON
BIRDS
HATS,
STUDENTS,
It
is
on
hats
every
lady
will
and
could
be
teachers
discover
a
succesfully
other
some
Any
they
who
one
which
the
a
would
wild
which
would
of
women
birds
the
birds.
I
do
so
from
81
could
celluloid,
could
of
be
so
divergent
be
a
one
of
convinced
am
genius
feathers
feathers
feathers
wearing
result.
feathers
perfect
of
hats
girls,
school-
desired
the
artificial
success,
the
rubber,
most
or
gent
Intelli-
inventive
fowls
invent
of
With
artificial
domestic
business
easily place
the
from
ing
wear-
death.
some
satisfy the
manufacture
of
G
of
hunters'
ban.
Perhaps
would
benefactors
other
by
from
and
birds, domestic
society, can
accomplish
wearing
girl
every
natural
the
of
refrain
plume
a
manufactured
commercial
majority
the
substance.
that
fashion
game
result, if
process
varieties
numerous
of
in
can
would
good
more
those
under
corpses
BIRD
GUNNERS
Let
birds
die
prominent
the
the
song
and
and
pay
song-bird
Still
in
ostriches,
women,
that
certainly waning.
except
to
SO-CALLED
UBIQUITOUS
state
interested
cease
with
is
to
feathers
any
COLLECTORS,
HUNTERS,
pleasure
birds
birds,
BOYS,
BIRD
a
VIII
song
ignorance.
or
the
pared
pre-
tastes.
process
by
would
come
be-
the
est
great-
that
birds
the
or
Schools,
82
NATIVE
OUR
societies,and
the
darkness.
the
their
do
must
press
The
BIRDS
of the
business
duty
dispel
to
hunter
plume
is
a
ing
disgustingone, because his favorite huntparticularly
of birds,
is the breeding and
time
nesting season
their
when
told
hunter
once
killed
three
these
wrong
innocent
their
that
which
hath
not
kind
with
the
a
vain
women
prophet
had
apply
to
Have
we
us?"
of which
woods, many
the
in
far
are
vineyard of
one
only
buy regardless
^
obtained.
was
all
not
the
and
Does
father,
one
human
to
depravity?
beasts of the
faithful and
more
than
nature
useful
people
some
live in first-class hotels?
Avho
notice
a
divines
few
be much
should
for
a
about
Is it not
larger.
leaflet entitled
Audubon
clergymen, but
and
The
"
:
Wearing
Address
M. Chapman.
Aigrettes," by Frank
York
Seventy-fifth St.,New
wood, 248 West
Mellick,Plainfield,N. J.
All
:
ladies and
"
The
pamphlet is
The
girlsinterested
Audubon
the Delineator,
Societies
March,
societywe
their
number
that
time
practicehumaneness
churches, too, preach and
Send
the
of
members
the
Among
read
This
committed
only apply
birds
the
had
The
all its sinfulness, corruption,and
it not
he
about
ever
will
it
"
of
starvation.
which
created
God
one
workers
or
that
beautiful,delicate plumage
bore
slaughterby
of
the word
Should
parents
ignorant
of the brutal
1
death
creatures
plume
afternoon.
one
the
caused
Florida
A
Chapman
in
egrets
had
he
M.
helpless nestlingsby
thousand
was
Frank
Mr.
hundred
that
meant
its best.
is at
plumage
in birds
and
1898.
their
Emma
City, or
free
to
in hnmane
Work,"
in
Plumes
Herons'
Miss
sent
and
of
our
H.
Miss
its
or
Lock-
Mary
A.
applicants.
work
by Frank
M.
should
man,
Chap-
BIRDS
widest
sense?
Gospel
who
Master
could
that
let
then
custom,
speak for
speak for
Israel
our
kin
dnmb
reach
of woods
creation
our
sympathy
If
and
the
forced
into
higher
and
fields it
and
is
than
more
a
forth
come
mercy
tra-
science
our
children
Father's
up
groaneth
now."
their
lessons?
and
is
Christianity
our
our
has
man
might
if
we
that
the
Have
midst.
higher
and
cannot
heeded
we
them
of every
Learned
their
bird its
merely
their nests
Where
they hid
themselves
Talked
with
Called
them
Of
"
Learned
Hiawatha's
all beasts
their
names
the beavers
the
in summer,
in
he
whene'er
them
'
language,
all their secrets,
and
names
they built
How
Where
believed
never
conqueror.
Learned
and
them,
met
the
language,
all their secrets.
built their
hid
squirrels
winter,
Chickens.'
he learned
living
the
the little Hiawatha
Then
How
Read
?
stronger being should
and
apostlesof
still
are
many
Longfellow,who
part of the brutal
"
lived
have
seers
prophets and
to the
back
go
lines from
the
himself
our
all of
beautiful
the
themselves.
need
;
that
and
rightkind
of the
which
have, indeed, taken
pain together until
in
vaileth
great and
the whole
"
from
of nature,
many
he
preachers of
many
creatures
that
so
is still true
in
dumb
aims, but of
nobler
Nor
so
churches
and
servitude
and
ignorant
draw
for the
battle
not
83
ETC.
HATS,
there
Are
are
Ministers
ON
lodges,
their acorns,
act
lowing
folthat
the
84
NATIVE
OUR
How
the reindeer
Why
the rabbit
Talked
them
Called
The
was
handled
the
by
taken
in the
the
them,
he met
Brothers.'
be
must
and
^professional
The
timid,
so
whene'er
will be shown
teacher, as
swiftly,
so
Hiawatha's
"
collector
boy
ran
them
with
BIRDS
^
the
must
be
section.
next
collectors
and
by
hand
in
amateur
public press
"
the
by
Let
courts.
the
Audubon
Society,the
humane
societies,the League
of
American
Sportsmen,
and
state
hand
work
hand
in
jealousy. Where
prosecution should
and
dens
L.
the
that
easilyfind
for
made
should
warden
must
be
what
he thinks
to
of
any
in the
them.
interest
advertisement:
1
See
Let
also
give
In
a
of game
"
nest
ear-
lectors
col-
are
state
any
lover
paper
or
which
to
game
Longfellow's
to
"
The
Stuff
Birds
You
the
Birds,"
of
of the
participate
business
find
eggs
show
nature
support
pretends
protectionI
"Learn
of
trade, and
in this
moral
in bird
and
birds
every
of the persons
if you
in
are
unlicensed
the
it.
magazines facilitating
in the wrong,
in court
collections
purposes,
song
suppressed.
and
papers
breakers
law-
license.
a
in mounted
trade
The
issue
societies
When
reallyworthy
the
this kind
to make
means
uncomfortable.
very
be
where
Avar-
game
after
no
It is,of course,
complaints of
against one's neighbors,but
they can
state
to them.
known
any
sufficient
be
gladlylook
S. will
to make
advisable
not
take
without
nuisances
might
place. The
wardens
game
warning
a
made
are
these
on
A.
the
to
work
following
Then
etc.
"
Killingworth.
86
OUR
NATIVE
Han
game
The
only hunting sport
and
and
all game
shootingof
fall
least
at
are
for
taste
these
people knoAV
birds
this
out-door
as
long as
If
a
and
and
few
only a
A
camera
track
birds
that
are
landowners,
callingattention
signswill
offender
caught
severityof
Minn.,
Snelling,
that its groves
and
The
all bird
residents
river
of both
that
them, but
and
grouse.
reachingduck
birds with
dak
ko-
rats.
birds.
Park
the
put up signs
handed
Such
penalties.
offenders,but they
all very
tendents,
superin-
do
cautious.
to
over
keep
Every
the
full
militaryreservation of Ft.
signs have proved very useful,so
bottoms
have
become
reservation
St. Paul
points just discussed
lovers
can
Ameri-
the
for birds, although the
to
of
song
and
and
make
be
felt
Fortunately
a bird-huntingpopulation.
placed on the shooting of
law
On
such
ducks
societies should
should
may
there
ever
North
a
and
and
the law.
has
game
off all
keep
eat
indulge their
can
not
the
to
great many
a
away
not
be
and
song-birdhunting
of
hunt
mice
cities have
heavy penaltyshould
small
tolerate
him
and
that
sympathize with
to the expense
go
or
"
large
spring
catch
who
one
still millions
grounds,let
grouse
the
ing
catch-
thousand, they
they
Any
cannot
we
will not
person
the
day'sshootingon
a
have
we
is the
peasantry
which
on
sport.
of
country
exterminated.
during
Italian
rush-fringedlake, can
in
been
mitigating circumstance
a
creatures
exhilaration
have
skylarksby
as
other
no
the
claim
birds
song
If the
migration.
nightingalesand
BIRDS
must
it is to the
and
is
a
dise
para-
sible
easilyacces-
Minneapolis.
make
it evident
interest of song
to
birds to
BIRDS
have
our
mammals,
game
protected and
coons,
and
game,
HATS,
ON
our
Where
hares, and
rabbits
is
Men
and
will
boys
rod, and however
become
their
and
sport
continue
to
we
teachers
and
Give
who
and
to the
close
all classes, men,
enough
moral
terns, and
go
then
on
of the
The
another
remember
and
were
gun
that
lake
and
outing
boy
even
a
some
boys.
book
good
mischief
drop
once
eating,and
will
quickly
callingattention
not
of
slave
throw
ball
a
few
you
days' fishing,
and
for the
sake
little rifles at home
and
for
up
not
birds, ducks, loons,
kindness
intended
have
birds alone, when
for
or
guns
If you
boys.
shore
of human
the
at
to let song
birds, leave your
birds
for
needs
to understand
chapter without
backbone
name
love
ubiquitous,irresponsible
gunners
summer
in the
want
delightof parents
mean
will
about
women,
other
a
this
of
nuisance
not
friend.
staunch
your
I cannot
he
forgeteven
meanness,
become
trouble
the
sport, and
boys
our
nation
perhaps
is the
restless,mischievous,
your
outdoor
on
take
A
the
justthat bubbling vitality
healthy boy
every
and
gun
we
of them.
out
dreamers, but she also needs
in
countries.
certainlydo
aggressivevirilityand their
adventure
are
will become
the
love
disappeared,
big
quail
European
philosophers,poets, artists, and
which
and
desire to make
may
of nature,
lovers
true
educate
to
South
much
become
have
fish
our
have
bluebirds
several
proved in
deer
ducks, grouse,
geese,
exterminated, robins, orioles,and
fowls, as
birds, and
game
preserved.
where
87
ETC.
your
targets.
potatoes
will penetrate
or
for
you
Have
and
possiblypass
I
88
NATIVE
OUR
the
What
potato.
the
during
close
a
it that
or
runs,
flies!
the
in
does
he
immediate
elders
know
right to buy
but
rifle,
firearms
with
towns
are
know
not
to
see
creeps,
in towns
gated
unmiti-
an
better, but
any
be
they should
better,or
how,
any-
taught
the courts.
by
of
which
communication
A
Recreation
the
upon
of
1899
common
Many
"
and
sense
All
ladies
for
shoot.
fun, and
So
lives to afford
when
Our
they
a
moment's
saw
stump, and
a
next
my
four
next
I
as
visit,I
birds.
the mark
evening
the
mother
and
in the nest
I
bird
A
short
bluebirds
witli
were
a
her
must
yield their
building in
the
looked
the
gaping
after, I
near
beside
bullet hole
four
try
coun-
of
I noticed
lay in
ticularly
para
low
hol-
At
nest.
mouths'
of
ladies
this nest.
the
a
at them.
two
saw
The
stump
lay
her
body,
of cold
and
through
babies, dead
the
say,
to creatures
eggs
shooting.22's
passed, and there
"
to
in the
are
passed I
time
"
sorry
incident
greeted by
was
many
fishing,
they
not
One
:
so
during
am
visitors
are
while, five beautiful
baby
save
often
as
I
pair of bluebirds
a
here
number
comment
of
streams
amusement
presumedly higher scale.
After
ti'out
our
sad
a
self control
robins, larks,and
our
I
such
reproduce it
.22 rifles.
carry
"
in the ]March
boys, and,
men,
"
I
visit
people
summer.
I find
contains
cityouting partiesthat
"
about
do
.22
a
gun,
everything that
vicinityof
They
do
or
at
Boys going
a
It is all
gun
shoot
not
nuisance.
their
a
with
want
man
season?
twelve-year-old
boy
your
or
does
BIKDS
ON
BIRDS
This
starvation.
the
on
where
HATS,
but
is
incident
one
and
Rattlesnake,
parties
for
go
few
a
89
ETC.
of
doubt
no
that
many
all
on
Van
E.
Buren,
"Missoula,
it
them
the
in
the
wonder
a
country
Buren
city
not
shore
demonstrate
it
it
against
license
gun
left
birds
a
a
take
sand
keep
at
gun
See
old
an
track
of
and
in
is
that
need
and
old
happy
you
great
we
the
you
be
with
fools,
wonder
in
innocent
on
cannot
you
are
the
calls
marksman,
barn-door
We
hill.
The
female.
If
in
Van
Mr.
and
birds
time.
summer
and
of
young,
have
any
all.
only legal remedy
The
1
to
and
male
be
the
shooting,
place
132.
in
whom
good
a
song
hunt
them
resorts
are
on
Cats
?
inappropriately
as
summer
you
Mont."
molest
females,
just
at
If
birds
without
them
woods.
trout-stream
and
but
charitably,
decrease
schoolboys
boys,
murder
"ladies,"
birds
our
ignorant
;
men,
;
very
need
that
streams
days' outing.
"G.
Is
curred
oc-
license
"Principles
in
of
every
Tlie
to
abate
settled
League
of
this
nuisance
would
district.^
American
Sportsmen,"
page
a
CHAPTER
SONG
IX
AS
BIRDS
of
disgraceful killing
The
sections
some
destruction
of
country.
our
IVIassachusetts,
Rhode
North
and
Carolina,
that
song
bird
is
shot, sold, and
the
in
French
northern
Italian,
flickers, native
the
markets
six
hundred
.
robins
and
from
In
1897,
and
and
one
The
had
sold
are
been
in
thousand
two
by
single month.
Carolina
North
ers
labor-
Robins, thrushes,
received
a
inals
crim-
Italians,
swallows
even
of
kind
Hungarian
states.
were
in
and
saying
The
game.
negroes,
Orleans,
New
D.C.,
Washington,
shipped
southern
sparrows,
of
and
states,
in the
Creoles
Michigan,
reports
come
as
in
Pennsylvania,
Tennessee,
devoured
has
birds
fact, practically every
mostly French,
are
From
Orleans
in
birds, and,
food
the
among
Island,
New
for
birds
song
fearful
caused
already
FOOD
dealer
birds
killed
in
were
while
roosting.
The
capable
the
the
work
help
them
teaching
carried
and
The
Audubon
into
have
of
appreciating
sheriffs.
county
to
of
judges
and
kind
only
the
the
in
this
by
out
of
are
;
and
American
duty.
90
wardens
they
Avill not
good
is
by
and
Sportsmen
extending
now
every
criminals
dictated
prison
state
states, and
applied
of
class
programmes
League
Societies
southern
laws
the
are
this
citizen
their
hesitate
should
SONG
To
the
all
and
mammals,
all
in
fish.
their
Ten,
fifteen
years
now
in
schools
the
forming
them
Creating
is the
In
the
schools
zoology
must
in
real
which
long
before
minute
the
with
and
at
made
colleges
times
and
the
wrest
abstruse
the
this
microscope
anatomy.
in
earnest
forget entirely
beasts
settling
connection
cells
not
of
nature
every
and
the
have
come
and
to
an
ject
sub-
right.
study,
school.
of
the
interesting
and
we
ary
second-
botany
from
problems
trees,
due
which
In
away
biological
of
days
receive
must
bers
mem-
this
on
question
themselves
microtome
men
congress.
them,
professors
floAvers, the
earth
in
sentiment
subject
land.
be
will
be
will
this
the
young
them
win
can
forest
expressing
will
some
public
schools
in
of
must
and
in
and
in
part
destruction
way
common
teach
we
societies
school
boys
many
and
general
a
only
attention
must
and
and
barbarous
disgraceful,
end.
take
will
now,
of
birds,
game
bird, fish,
the
now,
legislatures
state
win
Ave
from
public opinion,
of
kind
every
and
game,
show
rej)orts
real
our
citizens
have
to
in
these
protecting
Private
power
taught
protection
If
of
91
FOOD
however,
nature,
importance
great
do
of
lovers
AS
BIRDS
birds
and
croscopica
miand
and
beautiful
revealed
their
SECTION
EDUCATION
Y
AND
THE
CHAPTER
Educating
willing
be
to
and
press,
Forest
Adults.
by
the
United
the
abundant
Audubon
Sportsmen,
but
work,
their
To
these
cents
in
twenty-five
cents
to
ten
is very
poor
book-stores
willing
Display
to
in
twenty-six
Audubon
chart
invite
have
nature,
write
order
or
business
and
people
policy.
In
and
places
the
of
Society, and
people
to
on
join.
92
for
much
of
the
or
be
membership
beautiful
colored
placard
a
table
of
more
found
cards.
chart
of
setts
Massachu-
attached
near
five
parties,
one
will
of
one
fee
proper
town
every
creased.
in-
from
issue
On
good
joining
expend
houses
a
the
much
very
birds, published by the
common
by
American
membership
reach
business
dues
receive
his
and
literature.
done
be
and
of
interesting and
desirous
dollar
one
bird
work
the
must
have
to
other
these
of
letter
a
that
already
membership
to
Agriculture,
League
societies
appreciation
compel
societies
the
public
publications
constantly increasing
other
in
of
are
Lore^ Recreation^
the
by
;
the
by
Bird
Department
and
beautiful
reached
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preservation
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and
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people
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magazines
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to
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chart
94
OUR
Miss
Clara
11.
Ohio.
12.
Pennsylvania.
NATIVE
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Russell,903 Paradrome
Mrs.
street, Cincinnati.
Robins, 111
Edward
South
Twenty-first
street,Philadelphia.
13.
Rhode
14.
West
Mrs.
Island.
H.
P.
Grant, Jr., 187 Bowen
I.
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1314
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street,Prov-
Chapline street,
AVheeling.
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Wisconsin.
W.
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646
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18.
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Miss
It is to be
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Conner, Ripley.
that
its work
who
adults
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also
charge of
have
who
continue
protectionof
for the
prosecuted,if
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necessary.
to
the
Text
the
of
Arbor
The
see
the
Day
now
Minnesota
Law,
Arbor
the
should
states
and
tory.
terri-
a
study work
that
a
they are
law
This
Bird
Day,
list is taken
from
to
warned,
no
such
laws
enacted.
in many
Arbor
and
and
It
Bird
a
states.
Day
1899
passed
and
enacted
combining
observed
Bird
laws
be
where
is
governor
and
1
society
society.
correspond with
nature
hereby authorized
by proclamation, one
day to
year,
state
have
break
desirable to pass
will also prove
with
to
birds
song
exist, the societyshould
"
to every
this
schools.
in the
Day
future
near
societies will do well
Officers of the
teachers
the
in
large city shonld
Every
^
Galveston.
Seixas,2008 Thirty-ninth
street,
to extend
will be able
the
C. C.
Mrs.
Gay, Redlands.
S.
George
to set
be
apart
designated as
request its observance
the October
number
each
of Bird
Lore.
by
AND
EDUCATION
95
BIRDS
THE
and other
public schools,private schools, colleges,
of
institutions
hy the planting of trees, the adornment
school and
public grounds, and by suitable exercises,
all
for
of arboriculture,
object the advancement
the promotion of a spiritof protection to Birds
ment
Trees, and the cultivation of an appreciativesenti-
having
and
their
concerning them."
The
Day
have
followingstates
law
:
passed
could
"
back
come
bronze
pleased with
in
memory
and
birds
island,
country where
a
where
a
women
or
grove,
best
tribute
way
we
attract
other
and
and
a
as
lake
a
park
our
bays,which
places for
Audubon
In
pioneers.
lakes.
rushes, weeds, and
allow
and
corners
made
be
of
many
It is very
some
would
kinds
also
of fish.
In
the
similar
a
coots, blackbirds, snipes,swamp
birds to
must
place
would
Park
scientists.
his
to
An
named
honor
fittingly
and
poets, writers, and
to
we
truly
little
hats.
on
convenient
Wilson
or
bird-lore
these
to
could
nature
and
Grove,
Nuttall
but
boys slaughter
corpses
birds, and
to
Audubon
erected
and
the
other
any
be
statues
men
wear
especiallyattractive
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marble
or
of
spirit
would
earth, he
to
Commemorative
Woods
If the
Ornithologists.
Indiana.
Wisconsin,
and
Islands, Groves, Parks,
Noted
Arbor
"
Massachusetts, Minnesota,
of
and
Bird
a
our
able
desirwrens,
order to do that,
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make
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to
grow
good
in
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spawn-
rushes,
tails,
cat-
floatingplants have also an aesthetic value,
ing
interestthem
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as
or
pond without
piece of
window
glass.
CHAPTER
EDUCATING
This
is
boy
Every
methods
work
study
render
and
tlieybuild
how
them
what
to
how
and
is
preaching
sleeps
read
articles
such
ruff, the
Don
I
Animals
the
Tell
birds
in
Let
of
boy
the
boys
make
boxes.
play, but
should
with
Soft
and
be
in
and
long,
are
and
boy
sentiment
or
ing
gush-
with
the
study
and
"
Thompson's
of
"
that
after
and
nature
Red-
Wild
kind
that
bird
made
that
hardships
them
how
to
weather
at
other
teach
nesting
This
"
the
unfavorable
in
Show
of
Literature
about
children
and
winter
lives.
is
is converted.
exposed to,
are
the
sympathy
birds,
every
connection
Known."
of
young
Silverspot,the Crow,"
''
as
Have
the
awakened,
In
birds
forbidding
heart
the
Valley Partridge
true
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in
harmful.
is also
our
their
always
direct
spiritof opposition.
the
talk
for
harmful,
of
constantly exposed
are
much
Too
ure
nat-
the
work
own
spring migrations
dangerous journeys.
the
habits
for
care
natural
In
the
the
of their
birds
dangers
fall
the
risk
his
benefits
of
homes,
little
the
at
of the
glimpses
but
birds.
learn
learn
them
their
them
defend
and
for the
schools.
public
our
student,
must
must
Give
us.
bird
children
birds
common
born
destructive
too
are
in
begin
must
a
GENERATION
GEOWING
THE
education
XI
boxes
study
and
study
should
not
winter
feed
the
birds
seasons.
tenants
be
mere
profitablealthough pleasant
EDUCATING
THE
Let
work.
bird
againsthawks
and
due
receive
these
do
can
that
This
in
which
our
in
common
as
much
all
they
fight such
to
to
can
tional
tradi-
work
must,
high
schools
teachers
however,
and
and
eggs
schools,bird
if the
in
In
out.
go
study
refrain
good, if they strictly
and
collectingbirds
and
attention
well
do
does, for instance, still prevail
owls.
from
schools
schools,as
clubs
that
97
GENERATION
schools
literature
ignorance
normal
and
teachers
spread good
also
GROWING
teachers
from
it
to
see
frequentlyvisited.
Every bird
actuallyplaced in a collection by schoolboysprobably
the wounding or
You
means
killingof half a dozen.
nests
may
be
eggs
and
that, if you
sure
birds,you
of the
out
birds.
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Use
birds
the
bird
good
be
collectingmust
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collectors.
of the
may
but
1
do
have
help
information,
that
helps to
colored
those
violate
birds
augments
decrease
our
observe
pictures,
Moreover,
would
the
that
in many
the
not
can-
you
states,
law.
This
done
only by competent licensed
private collections serve
only the
With
proper
directions
dren
chil-
collect insects,plants,and minerals,
profitably
learn
much
and
not
certainlyknowledge
and
Teachers
not
much
is
studied
teacher
let alone
collector.
they may
There
and
and
means.
schoolboy collectors
whim
Every
charts
these
by
have
soon
mania
collecting
outdoors,
reach
schoolboys collecting
start
will
country.
and
the Qgg
too
not
are
access
and
others
who
are
books,
to many
inspirationfrom
write
to
Mr.
H.
H.
the
make
that would
interested
to
A
any
collections.
be
in natural
and
libraries,
too
sciences
museums,
gassizAssociation.
Ballard, Pittsfield,Mass.
dearly
For
can
but
get
detailed
98
for the
bought
where
OUR
NATIVE
child.
The
sing most
swaying branches.
be in safe
Bird
cases
of
than
more
other
no
accumulate
the
Schools.
Our
that
not
seem
observations, illustrated talks,and
birds will
the
furnish
papers
excellent
view, it would
like
be better
publicand
the
A
hope
to
it may
give all
It is much
could
have
wearied
by
of it
trees
and
a
material
and
a
little
exercises
the
more
best
that
are
too
educational
of
much
sical
clas-
our
all the
that
Bird
be
in
to
children
than
in it will
birds.
overdone,
than
to
study,
that
so
surfeited.
the
offered,with
select from
long.
it,as
programme.
should
that
and
schools
some
might unduly lengthenthe
that
the younger
Day
is here
useful
probablybe
sentations
repre-
individual
Nature
will become
prove
better
had
of
pedagogicalpoint of
a
to observe
children
Day
It will
homes.
Day
material, and
good thing,can
the
Bird
action
is it necessary
From
to
strictly
little Bird
that
Nor
birds.
other
every
so
exercises
of
in the works
be found
can
limit ourselves
of
abundance
an
about
be
have
of
about
magazines
poets and writers.
exercises
to
of ages.
and
appreciated,
Bird
matter
and
dramatic
easy
anything with
more
them.
to
bird
teachers
Reports
be much
the
pupils are,
appeal
order.
in
always
free
Songs, declamations, reports
necessary.
are
the
except
purposes
experiencein arranging all kinds
directions for the observance
sj)ecial
much
on
one
the dust
"
beautiful
most
are
tifully
beau-
most
they perch
and
in
Day
serve
bloom
birds
when
I know
that
collection
egg
flowers
and
they grow,
sweetly
and
BIRDS
they
wish
they
should
be
SECTION
THE
and
is
willing
much
children
children
the
of
may,
the
however,
are
here
of
suggestions,
need
The
not
it is desirable
birds, but
the
special
costumes.
children
the
of
such
of
cises
exer-
any
few
a
;
the
The
without
arranged
time
number
a
birds.
different
for
the
interest
can
which
in
offered
has
the
copy
that
be
they
suggestive.
least
Where
suits
special
tight-fitting
colored
the
down
is
paper
material
good
tissue
to
these
and
the
out
the
fall
paper
bring
wingon
them
let
in
boys
large
out
and
back,
the
fasten
Colored
hands.
the
over
Cut
suits.
cloth, gather and
of
and
shoulder
dress
made,
are
brownie
shaped pieces
points
trouble,
participants
costumes
coloration
at
be
course,
for
or
of
parts
costumes
dresses
the
SAM
who
person
exercises
in
act
A
"
take
to
UNCLE
BEFORE
BIRDS
Directions.
General
YI
in
any
color
effects.
For
as
for
Use
boys.
with
tight-fittingwaists,
girls, use
cambric,
paper,
or
wings
other
any
made
pensive
inex-
material.
Where
on
which
Touches
suits
no
the
of
desired
other
to
are
be
color
colors
made,
any
dress
predominates
be
can
99
added
in
may
clothing
or
be
various
used.
ways,
100
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by
as
hoods, strips,and
caps,
should
The
taken
be
can
1. The
Mockingbird. Boy
2.
The
the
its
Care
long.
too
arrangement
The
charge.
unless
costume,
a
wings
pleasing
a
attained.
be
effect
ten
"
back
gray,
in
person
from
omitted
be
should
the
by
exercises
exercise
and
used
be
to
the
the
in
schools.
normal
make
to
not
decided
be
must
and
such
size,
of the
If handled
make
the
The
considered.
possibleto
of matter
amount
ridiculous.
not
temperament
schools
hio-h
in
success
be
it may
right way,
be
also
but
paper;
hair, and
of the
complexion, color
must
pieces of
pleasing and
be
effect should
children
BIRDS
NATIVE
years
old.
Front
light
wings brown-gray.
gray,
Heron.
Snowy
fourteen
to
Girl
"
twelve
to
sixteen
old, plain
years
white.
3.
5.
Green-winrjed Teal.
Girl
"
neck
green
stripe,skirt lightgray.
Teal.
Blue-winged
Oriole.
Girl
"
of
eight
of
eight
breast,waist
to the
down
collar,wings
Girl
spot.
to
dull
gray,
with
twelve, small
a
broad
lead-purple
brown, skirt gray, wings dull sky-blue.
waist
Orchard
"
gray,
eight to fourteen, chestnut-brown
with
high
large white
one
of
gimp
gimp,
6.
with
vest, skirt
carmine
Girl, rose
"
black, wings black
back
4.
Grosbeak.
Eose-hreasted
twelve, black
to
and
skirt
reddish
spot touching the
black, w^th large brown
gimp,
ing
extend-
brown, wings
gimp
toward
the
front.
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with
[These
Thrush.
Girl of ten
"
brown, wings and
birds
occupy
attorneys
selected
or
for
this
twelve, waist lightgray, speckled
brown.
skirt
seats
speakers
to
Uncle
near
for
part in
the
some
Sam's
birds.
cases.]
Other
desk
and
birds
act
may
as
be
102
NATIVE
OUR
BIEDS
Please, graciouslyhear
This
In
We
blessed
before
Long
have
But
we
For
who
him
ought
will not
ten
We
should
catch
But
should
not
make
him
all
a
Ask
him
And
to kill
Go
protect
beetles
corn.
bushes.
taxes.
to pay
us
ours.
the
sparrows
;
All
cats, roaming in the woodland.
All
cats
boy
dressed
that do climb
as
old
fellow, you
cats !
farmer
leaves.]
us.
cats"
bird-eating
on
pay
at
our
trees.
Sam
farmer
home, don't growl
[The
to
your
to house
not
;
old trees.
pays
tell him
friends
grain or
plant some
to
to cut
not
harshly,his righthand
Now,
"
caterpillars,
touch
Uncle
[To
glen,
berries pay;
him
Willinglyhe
Please
and
thousand
He
Tell
here,
grievous charges
most
five hundred
Please
"
years,
came
man
farmer's
the
been
have
'Gainst
say:
days of Pilgrim Fathers
the
We
and
wood
played in
have
Since
white
the
to
of freedom
land
lived for years
have
We
the birds have
is what
your
pleadings,
our
or
a
gardener.
gun,
your
the
musket,
taxes
Uncle
or
Sam
speaks
sword.]
;
birds,send
me
your
bad
BEFORE
BIRDS
THE
UNCLE
Snoioy Heron
The
Very
much
That
complaint we
it
trulygrievesus
do
They
would
But
kill
never
representsthe
No
beauty respects,
heeds not our
piercingcry.
no
father he kills,
The
mother
And
the
He
starves
He
slaysus
he
[The
soldier
moment.]
snares,
helplessfledglings
in the
for
nest.
beauty
our
In
weird, lone Everglades,
In
bays and
On
Mexico's
of
sounds
Georgia,
lagoons.
Sam
providedwith
plume-hunter.]
me
who
him
leaves
in
that
our
with
is
rascal
that
have
"
mercy,
The
[To
Put
collector.
knows
I will teach
Let
bird,
He
largeboy
a
hats.
fine
plume
Uncle
[Wrathfully to
a
on
cruel man,
a
heartless
the
He
.
wings
our
wear
they send
Send
to make
have
lovelyladies
Against many
Who
103
SAM
the
gun
and
!
soldier]
iron
the
small
!
manners
little gun
a
cage
!
plume-hunter
and
returns
after
a
104
The
which
By
nuisance
baneful
do suffer much,
we
"
bird collector,
professional
The
bad
That
No
who
man
of
he
makes
use
steals
does he with
Nothing
our
our
in his
locks all up
Little
he
for
cares
Nothing cares he
All the boys that
eggs.
bodies,
our
;
eggs
collects for all blood
Just
Or
Grosbeak
Rose-hreasted
another
There's
BIRDS
NATIVE
OUR
money,
case.
habits,
our
for
our
see
him
song,
prowling
Surely take to jDrowlingtoo.
Killing^stealing^ he calls taking;
"
this fiend !
from
Oh, protect us
TJncle Sam
[To
If you
I'll
attorneys and the public]
put
him
he'll
in
a
dungeon
That
we
no
hurt
never
or
Blue-iuinged
It is with
knave,
that
catch
ever
Where
Tlie
the
the
little
also make
that
Against men
Against boys that
bird
or
beast.
Teal
Crreen-ivinged
chagrin
complaint
go
out
hunting.
live in camps.
When
their
sultry schoolroom
When
blue
flagsin
marshes
closes,
bloom.
hunt
Sportsmen
wish
When
we
From
the
They
drive
in the
us
build
to
flower-f
the
wilds
To
the
dreary
Scarcely dare
Let
in sunny
Give
time
us
Give
them
Boys
and
When
give
;
Barrens,
us
children.
our
to
fly!
camping, fishing;
about,
guns
carry
!
climes
when
men,
"
homestead,
learn
to
"
there.
rest
a
raise
to
time
you
rivers
Alaska,
to
wings
our
do
rest
and
lands
Musk-ox
Sportsmen,
us
;
Labrador,
of
To
nests
lakes
ringed
northward
Northward,
springtmie,
our
Arctic
to
us
105
SAM
UNCLE
BEFORE
BIRDS
THE
Do
not
shoot
at
splutteringducklings.
Do
not
shoot
at
fishingcranes
Let
the
laughing
Let
the
coot
play
Please
remember
When
you
We
Happy
in
Do
make
For
not
Lake,
and
Dearly
Must
There's
that
do
our
no
!
pool
in summer,
play, and
harmless
rest,
way.
and
ball
woods, and
we
the
breasts
our
leave
we
happy,
playing, resting ;
deadly
your
the
on
ramble,
also
are
be
loon
!
love
them
shot
pond,
them
sad
life without
target
!
and
river,
all.
and
the
lonely?
birds !
"
106
BIRDS
NATIVE
OUR
Uncle Sam
Those
men
Boys
who
who
hunt
at
I will
gather on
Land
them
on
But
may
never
camps,
flat
boats,
sanelyshore.
keep
their guns
even
see
and
Oriole
sad to mention
With
their
with
sling-shot,
With
their
rifles,snares,
with
And
They
cause
Teach
them
Hurts
worse
And
that
Mother
a
than
a
into
Driv'n
And
Or
must
a
A
few
on
wing
broken
bone
leg,
"
it.
you
rusty
have
nails
children,
balm
for wounds.
us,
if you
wing
"
us,
die in agony.
horrid
When
broken
feet of
no
wound
If you
We
the
have
we
missiles
despair.
which
than
worse
us
bow.
bird
bandage
cannot
Bleeding wounds,
Pain
and
air-gun.
call the doctor,
cannot
we
a
many
their
sticks and
and
stones
grief:
much
schoolboyscause
some
cannons,
crow.
a
Orchard
at last we're
That
springtime,
of Sahara.
The
And
summer
my
a
In the desert
They
in the
shoot
cat
bush
will spy
or
lawn
us
we
rest.
"
scattered,bloody feathers.
caused
us.
and
fun
They
tell of your
They
tell of the robin's death.
such
have
like to
I would
in
In
a
fort
dark
a
I'll build
see
and
That's
Who
the
my
wear
murdered
and
clammy,
birds
music
The
a
or
hats.
on
should
song
birds.]
some
[Introducing
of the
of the birds
waiting ;
are
wish
to call
on
the
They
wish
to call
on
the ladies and
desire much
to
A
see
are
welcome
boys.
Uncle
Sam.
Boy
Let the birds be welcome
They
in.]
Thrasher
Brown
They
And
come
SECOND
PART
few
snakes,
yellow,blotchyspots.
placefor girlsand women
some
[At this place,
A
moon.
or
damp.
and
rats
Crawling lizards,cold
With
sun
salamanders.
full of
Full of mice
room,
and
cellars dark
They'llbe
you
far island
some
on
with
in.
them
ne'er
they'll
Where
"
boys
mean
run
I will put them
sport,
Sam
Uncle
If you
107
SAM
UNCLE
BEFORE
BIRDS
THE
in
our
!
homes.
girls.
108
NATIVE
OUR
Welcome
They
are
My
clear
Are
in
welcome
everywhere !
happy
known
I feel it's
You
2.
schoolroom,
they are
The
1.
BIRDS
our
Rohin
voice and
child ;
to every
quite needless
've known
me
rust-reel breast
my
make
to
address,
an
long, Ions' while.
a
sing from the top of
On the brightand crispMarch
morn.
The
baby clapshis hands with glee
When
you
hear
cries, Oh, the robin
And
"
[Boy or girlof eightto
high, white
fourteen
I
The
My
I
2.
and
scarce
eat
honey
The
dew
I dwell
3.
My
home
You
wings
for either
throat
bugs
in the
on
brown
boy
or
skirt,
girl.]
are
harebells
my
columbine.
the
as
snowy
nod
wild
rose
I
which
on
is small
hear
at all.
dine,
vine
grows.
baby'sspoon,
white
and
;
lilies bloom
humming flight.
[Littlegirl,ruby-red silk collar,waist
black.]
and
ruby-red,
are
the woodland
where
JMy eggs
Where
waist
vest,coat and
hummingbird,
is the food
That
brick-red
tiniest in the hall ;
breast
The
with
!"
come
Hummingbird
the little
am
boy
has
brick-red
brown
collar and
The
1.
;
girlwith
brown;
trousers
the tree
me
white, skirt green, wings
110
2.
farmer
That
I steal berries
against me
he will enter
for that
Now
his bushes
from
keep
All
the
and
worms
long springtime.
We
gladden his
His
horses
and
From
almost
Now,
my
don't
pay
to
ten
from
heart
Of
air and
Like
half the
us
From
We
breeze
and
Into
our
fret.
get.
dark
slate-gray.]
we,
meadow
till late at
free
night
laugh and play,
rise with
glideabout
Pray, to
and
gracefulflight.
children
our
born.
light.
so
spring and
our
Pray, boys,do
corn
you
children
are
clouds
summer
swallows
And
value
bush.
Swalloius
early morn
You
they are
fourteen^entirelyin
wind
We
and
oats
old farmer, don't fume
O'er brook
3.
the land ?
twig, vine, and
first day
very
The
2.
free
comprehend
from
due
surelyeat
cows
the
dear
[Girlof
1.
he
;
tree
a
many
Can't
fruit
his suit.
big beetles
is my
only what
and
thrush,
robin, myself,the long-tailed
The
You
and
shrubs
and
great
I take
That
BIRDS
there says
And
I
3.
XATIVE
OUR
not
all
morning'slight
day.
throw
ugly
stones
cabin warm,
shelves
Pray, boys,do
us
and
no
clay-wroughtcones
harm.
4.
beak
Our
feet
homes
hill,crag, and rock
[Girlof eight to twelve,
the hill.
under
the eaves.
I'm loved
by
but
I have
quarriedour
caves
brown
gimp, waist
brick-
blue.]
dark
wings
have
we
short reddish
Bluebird
The
all the
children,
little to say ;
Pray, boys, justkeep
the
sparrows
all the cats away.
And
six to ten, waist
[Girlof
soft rock,
the
carve
feeble tools.
and
humble
With
red, skirt and
rill,
the rafters and
on
took
we
not, like cruel fools.
Break
In
mortar
and
must
we
under
sand-bank
The
Our
creek
and
bill and
With
trowel, for
our
bank
From
5.
is
111
SAM
UNCLE
BEFORE
BIRDS
THE
reddish brown, skirt and
tary
wings mili-
blue.]
EnglishSparrow
The
1.
talked about sparrows?
Jip,jip,jipI Who
Who
said. Keep the sparrows away?
fellows here shooting with arrows
You
hit the
Couldn't
0
I
just from
come
And
there
I sang
He
I had
Uncle
made
out
Sam
my
biggest old jay.
Washington city.
the
a
gayest old time
fine ditty,
papers
"
in
rhyme.
;
112
3.
all this
Why
stop
5.
I know
You
say
And
little peas, cherries,and
You
claim
I
steal berries
Why
don't
sloe.
frightenall beauty,
birds away.
all the song
if your
poor
can't
natives
they in deep
fightme.
forests stay ?
songster has prayed to the chaps here,do a thing like that ;
I never
I'm not afraid of the chaps here,
Some
Your
not
We
You
Why
And
Why
As
We
afraid of the cat.
brats and
and
cats
all much
With
9.
a
I steal fruit and
Now,
Are
8.
grasshoppertoe.
I don't
care
!
like me,
But
I'm
7.
trite
at
don't much
you
I drive
6.
rhymes ?
opera ding-cling,
attempt
your
chirping,
migrate to pleasanterclimes
Better
4.
and
all this noise
What's
Now
BIRDS
NATIVE
OUR
naughty
cliirp
away,
kids
stupidfor me.
bill and genuine wits
too
sharp,stout
and
free.
parks and premise ;
give me notice to quit.
hate
in
me
not
after you
give me
don't you
soon
whining
as
shall
no
the
more
the notice.
that I
see
season
"git"?
opens.
patientlywait.
10.
THE
BIRDS
We'll
steal
And
there
In
fall,oh,
11.
fine
then
And
now,
Please, let
see
Hear
[A bold,saucy boy of
six to ten
:
The
I
!
love to live
and
;
music,
mankind.
and
roses
vine
less
near
April'sdrizzle
and
chippie,
clematis
Just
In
brown.]
Chippie
little song
You
shower.
of June,
golden leaves of October
hear my
tune.
frolicking
six to ten, entirely
in
The
I believe
No
This
brown, with reddish-brown
Great
in
Blue
proud
whistle and
I do hate
I
of this crowd
gray vest,coat and trousers
Know
'Mid
1.
out
in your
In flowers
[Girlof
Christmas,
look weary,
the little brown
am
I dwell
2.
!
start.
we
you
get
me
!
hungry, must eat and keep cheery,
loud !
the other Chips callingme
Feel
1.
aboard
for Manila
I
skate.
business
fighting
spend merry
we
And
practiceto
'Rico
and
'Lulu
At
will
we
Cuba
For
Klondyke,
free ride to the
a
113
SAM
UNCLE
BEFORE
this dire
Heron
seclusion
no
twitter
;
confusion.
fuss,and din, and
titter.
cap.]
114
NATIVE
OUR
2.
Give
silent meditation
me
On
It's in
3.
Let
do
you
call music
Laugh
Let
through
roar
plash and
waves
the
rushes,
the
rain !
of
and
scream
hear
the
strain
bullfrog's
ever
saw
who
I wade
seldom
pickerel.
Catfish, sunfish,pike,and
6.
If you
boys
and
Come
Near
7.
the
Boys, if
you
Patience
me
trousers
and
of
coot
and
would
you
the
on
twelve
to
Ridore
fishing.
brant,
cormorant.
fishing,
have
must
you
all the lore.
fourteen, coat
slate
in
in store.
Backbone,^
Devil's
of boulders
the
cherries.
master
stockingsblack, wings
1
perch.
nie with
watch
I'll teach
There
[Tall boy
of
learn
isle of tall wild
the
With
Meet
would
!
lurch.
the
to spear
eagle.
fishing.
me
I but
that
Know
When
like.
the
of loon
me
Boys,
rustic.
bear
cannot
the
?
hopping pigmies pipe?
it is too
wind
the
Let
5.
out
say
Simply
of reach.
I'm
these
I must
;
station,
my
crowd,
! What
Music
What
4.
with
keeping
the
lonely beach
and
marsh
the
For
BIRDS
and
gray.]
a
lake.
vest
slate
gray,
The
I
Woodpecker
birddom's
am
carpenter,
splintersfly;
the
make
Can
polesand posts and
My merry trade I ply.
My bill is my chisel,
On
tail is my
I'm
never
For
bluebirds, and
rafters and
Cut
of
to
ten
fourteen, with
of Lincoln
Robert
I
My
nest
on
the
I chatter
There
To
be
and
Just
one
full
few
sing and
brown
name
for money
are
I will ask you
favor
collar,white
and
cap
large white
a
than
prettier
I'm
sure
not
meadow
Black, white, and
2.
is my
sing justfor love,
red
spot.]
;
or
fame.
boys have found out,
gambol about ;
my
colors
any
young
so
:
the blackbirds
to disturb
Singing their
"okalee."
with
The
blackbirds
And
those
And
and
grackle,
all
where
the
That
bathe
with
the
carmine
wings,
golden heads,
on
bush
and
cat-tails
reeds.
swing.
gay.
jay.
Pray, solemnlypromise me
Not
vest,
Bobolink
The
1.
"
ringing,
railing.
black, wings black, with
trousers
climbing.
daydees,"
babies
owl
woods
the
I make
[Boy
tired of
downy
forest trees
stool ;
My
And
115
SAM
UKCLE
BEFORE
BIliDS
THE
116
But
3.
NATIVE
OUR
emphaticallydo
most
That
laziest of all the
That
rascallyfellow
birds,
He
raises his children
Is too
lazy to build
Imposes on warblers
smart
him
long.
hook
by
in brown
cap
and
by crook,
nest,
a
and
little folk,
self-invited guest.
a
of
collar,vest black, coat
twelve, lightbrown
black, wings black with a largewhite spot.]
eight
white, trousers
to
The
Our
the Redhird
Tanager and
Father
He
denied
But
when
endowed
us
the music
us
you
with
color,
of voice,
the redbird's
see
glow
And
the bluebird's
The
tanager'sscarlet,the indigo'ssheen,
The
oriole's orange
Thank
The
him
gems
hues.
azure
beneath,
for the gems
of her
[Tanager: girl,waist
bridal
of
"
Nature,
wreath.
red, skirt black, wings black.
girlentirelyin red, with
If both speak,they must
red
One
to
time
Redbird
Be
bright,be bright,love light!
In
winter,
the post and
dark
winter, when
your
little Bob
the
White.
call
snow
:
speak.
together.]
may
Quail
summer
on
both
or
keep
In
Forget not
I sit
cap.
be careful
The
1.
a
you've known
cowbird
[Boy
I disown
with
As
As
BIRDS
:
does fall,
118
2.
I will read
hear
the mice
small
; cap,
I must
[Boy, large or
figures;
the
tufts of brown
and
reeds
In
made
the lawn,
on
grass
papers.
their capers.
cut
suit,and wings of brown, with
to the cap
attached
paper
will
white
suggest
The
Wild
rush
and
wdngs
muskrat's
And
As
then
then
And
played on
When
[Boy
trousers
to dive
we
and
moss
of the
swim,
the
wings
have
bees
have
the first
in the
buzzed
SAvift and
grown
falls
snow
leech.
rippledbeach.
of the
the sand
southward
journe}^
We
mother
our
dome,
fished for crab and
And
Our
rice
boys could swim.
never
When
northern
sleptat night on
we
learned
we
Ducks
home.
our
her
Under
2.
sound
feathers.]
ear
1.
two
quiet as
as
dawn,
from
sense
some
you
pleasebe
But
in the
Oaks
Hollow
Report at
BIRDS
NATIVE
OUR
rush
on
brant
with
goldenrodlong,
strong
and
and
;
broom.
loon.
eight to fourteen, small cap and collar black, vest
very lightgray, coat black, wings black.]
of
The
1.
Snow,
Can
My
cold, and
never
heart
is
My joy can
Lark
Meadow
drizzle of
make
ever
me
cross.
happy
never
coming spring.
to
sing.
be lost.
and
2.
post and
From
To
In
3.
springor
When
I still call
4.
If storms
Load
with
and
dark
ten
to
of
song
tlie
spreadingelm
snow
On
crescent
of very
!
frost is
falling,
rules the realm.
flashes
Winter
For
are
and
"
calling
From
more
a
1
life.
Oriole
orioles
Sunlighton
3.
a
the
Color
of the Year
yellow with
lighterbrown.]
Hark,
Summer
2.
Spring
Baltimore
The
No
fear.
fourteen, waist
brown, skirt and wings
1.
strife
lark's cheerful
meadow
"
!"
the Year
Spring of
the
sear,
evil forbodes,
toilsome
Remember
[Girlof
grass stand
care
floats,
in autumn
of life and
you
The
fall.
or
white
"
heard
was
still light,
no
heart
My
never
and
corn
bird,
I call.
summer
gossamer
When
the
am
wire
fret I
or
mope
I
fallow
field and
Of
119
SAM
UNCLE
BEFORE
BIRDS
THE
the lawn
fled and
the
the
through
south
the bowers.
;
April
wind's
showers
balm.
swaying bough they'resinging,
Weaving
hammock
nests,
120
NATIVE
OUR
BIEDS
and
flowers
Fair
sunshine
Our
resplendentguests.
they'rebringing,
[Girlof eight to fourteen, cap black, waist bright orange, skirt
black with two
long yellow trianglestaperingupward, wings
white
with
black
edges.]
Child a7id the Chickadee
The
1.
That
climbs
Oh,
tell me,
And
2.
aren't
I
wonder,
can't children
see
Now
tell me,
little birdie
Who
washes
your
And
do you
cold
babies
You
not
face
water
could
pumpkin heads,
questionsmake
To
weather
don't
with
so
nice ?
cry
eyes ?
things
big eyes,
chickadees
give us
a
bath
and
no
wings
so
fast
laugh.
;
greatest delight
splash,where
They
and
possiblyhave.
With
find it the
spry.
clean
so
funniest
mothers
We
so
rattle ?
in your
runs
the
are
frowns.
big clowns.
fret,trample, and
ever
Your
In any
the
hear the bark
can
you
fir,
big cattle.
other
And
Your
5.
the
on
will fall ?
afraid you
you
the small.
largeand
find
do you
what
spidersand
When
4.
trees, the
our
on
child, great beetles,ugly with
Why
And
3.
bird
Oh, there's the little chickadee
brooklets
get the
time
are
running
to freeze
tight.
!
THE
6.
catch
You'll
And
There
are
I
never
catch colds,
I
never
wipe with
fan
are
wings,
to climb.
birds,
the chickadee
hoot
owls
and
night,
at
blow
When
wolves
prowl after the sheep and
sleepfor sheer fright?
scarcelycan
Let
storm,
The
snow,
let
the
holes
boy
black.]
a
and
storm
sleepin
we
little girlspeaks the
the
Uncle
If you
In your
You
howl
or
;
a
we
fear not
the owl.
bunch.
child's,a little boy the bird's part. For
lightgray collar,and
As
hoot
wolf, let owl
the herds,
let it blow, let it crunch.
feel not
In tree
the lot,
things ;
my
them, and flyoff
tell,where
on
time,
no
and
feathers
"
storms
We
[A
in
?
bugs.
and
towels
what
;
When
I
10.
dry
shake
Then
Now
I catch
"
and
tisms
"
no
?
use
apron
the shrubs
on
colds, and
no
My feet are
I stripmy
9.
bug
every
in the air,
for your
and
cold, rheumatism
Catch
Ruth.
auntie
toes
your
towel
and
apron
I know
8.
wipe
you
dare ?
you
cold like dear
bad
a
do
how
Where's
7.
do
Ugh, birdie, birdie,how
121
SAM
UNCLE
BEFORE
BIRDS
make
vest ;
wings, coat, and
Sam
the birds
as
happy
yards,in parks and fields.
they are
will
ever
now
in your
have
schoolroom,
gratefulfriends.
trousers
122
NATIVE
OUR
Early
the
on
BIRDS
morning
summer
will call you,
They
sing to
you
;
Sadly they will part in autumn,
again in spring.
Gladly come
"
Herewith
Extract
**
fauna
of the
justified
by
are
"1.
of
is
facts:
avian
following conclusions
"
three-fifths of the whole
about
Throughout
Report
Regarding the
"
States,the
of Alaska, bird life in
country, exclusive
our
Birds.
Regarding
United
adjourned.
Horxaday's
Mr.
from
Conclusions
the court
stands
area
general
being annihilated.
The
edible
still are,
most
''2.
and
"
3.
In
have
the
on
"4.
many
localities edible birds
become
rare,
and
Owing
killed
food
purposes,
for
of nature
nearly all
cies
spe-
important speciesare
some
likelyto
'plume
birds'
persecutionof
6.
The
season,
by
become
so
attention.
is
birds
insectivorous
and,
unless
become
the
true
game
are
now
being
prevented,this
general.
extermination, throughout this country, of
The
the so-called
"
of
disappearanceof
the
to
and
5.
been,
point of general extermination.
song
"
species,have
severelypersecuted.
birds, our
abuse
144
birds, about
egg
collectors
universal
as
is
our
practicallycomplete.
now
birds
and
to demand
during their nesting
by boys generally,has
and special
immediate
EXTRACT
7.
"
for the
FROM
HORNADAY'S
MR.
Excepting in a few localities,existingmeasures
protectionof birds, as theyare carried into effect^
notoriously inadequate for
are
balance
proper
the
of
maintenance
a
of bird life.
Destructive
8.
''
123
REPORT
agencies
the
constantly on
are
increase.
present conditions,and exceptingin
Under
9.
"
localities,the
except
short
the smallest
10.
If the
drastic
carried
out
a
universal
bird
fauna
believe
New
While
"
if
even
it will
the task is not
it is
destroyerswill
impossibleto propose
bird protection that
can
be
a
be
at first
series
save
of
our
adopted by
found
nearlyso
of
wherein
of states
groups
securingthe
protection of migratory birds
effective.
resolutely
be
protection must
on
the
close
difficult as
it
prehensive
lies,not in the framing of comdifficulty
but in securing their adoptionin
measures,
business
The
the
of
some
and
will suffice ; and
annihilation,
that
various
The
for
states, we
The
seems.
for
crusade
is to be terminated,
adopted
Regarding Birds.
from
examination
labors
that
seem
may
laws
different
the
the
Recommendations
thouglitit
be
half-way measures
expected
displeased.
**
of extermination
must
measures
be
1
birds,
our
comparatively
absolutelycertain to
regarded as
present war
and
;
No
general.
to
be
period,may
within
species,and
all
1
occur.
''
of
practicalannihilation
few
a
Orleans
in the field for
should
not
protection.
rob
they
of
enactment
must
be
are
legislation
general in
Cheyenne
needed.
order
to be
of the fruit of her
124
is
here.
As
would
to
be
the
that
would
and
state
follows
1.
from
:
character
be
to
of
be
not
the
discussed
that
legislation
certain
are
demands
perfectlyobvious, and
them
satisfy
their
need
effective,there
most
imperative as
"
BIRDS
separate question, and
a
so
NATIVE
OUR
would
be
would
enactment
save
territory,
two
or
beneficial,
universally
so
be
the laws
desirable
three.
to
every
They
are
as
"
Prohibit
state
all egg
commissioners, and
game
under
collecting,
except
the
license
of
payment
a
license fee.
"
2.
Provide
for the
extermination
of
the
English
sparrow.
"
3.
Prohibit
the sale of dead
"
4.
Prohibit
the
of
of
purposes
slaughterof
a
birds for
"
5.
Prohibit
all
"
6.
Prohibit
the
of wild birds,and
than
fur-bearinganimals, for
any
kind.
[This
will
mercial
com-
stop
the
millinerypurposes.]
springshooting.
carryingor using of
a
gun
without
license.
"
any
by
7.
For
three years
birds, except
the
U. S.
favor
of
iThis
such
prohibitthe killingor capture
birds of prey
Survey to
Biological
destruction.
to merit
the
killingor capture
quadrupeds,other
at all seasons.^
game,
persons
The
moderation^
has
long been
and
be
collect for scientific purposes,
then
earnestlyadvocated
only
the
when
by Forest
proposition is constantly gaining advocates.
planks in
be declared
may
noxious
sufficiently
only exception should be in
desiringto
in
as
of
platform of the League of American
and
It is also
properly
Stream, and
one
Sportsmen.
of the
SECTION
FROM
PROTECTION
GAME
Yll
THE
POINT
Better
Than
to
fee
wise
The
God
for
doctor
for
cure
made
never
VIEW
in fields for health
hunt
the
OF
a
draught.
for
his work
depend
is not
have
They
large
long
of
and
become
small
birds, and
lavislilybestowed
Much
apples.
for
the
American
thirteen
Is
it
Right
and
asked
himself
to
recreation
has
Hunt
Is it
?
to
and
parent
right
Should
them.
been
long
every
state
to
I
126
?
and
teacher
take
buy
"
they
as
the
boy
ways
al-
golden
recent
League
of
organized
in
before
animal
my
ignorance
and
this
has
of
lover
no
life for
the
ciety
so-
territory.
INIany a
Fish
ures
treas-
within
The
be
not
bear
made
already
it will
a
many
:
by
its w^ork
extend
nature
and
and
been
and
sportsmen
states,
will
has
so
nevertheless
are
that
linaceo
gal-
has
nature
begin,
trees
and
aquatic
of nature's
and
of
treasures
greed, folly,and
the
progress
Sportsmen
of
fact, none
when
down
the
countr}^
exploitation company
the
do, by cutting
years
In
inexhaustible,
are
form
this
inexhaustible.
from
far
that
tion
protec-
sportsmen.
fish which
game
upon
fish
broad-minded
mammals,
of
and
game
aware
game
Iphigenia.
and
Cymon
argue
intelligent and
the
with
to
necessary
;
mend.
to
man
Dryden,
It
unbought,
nauseous
exercise
on
LOVER'S
NATURE
gun
doubt
sport
that
GAME
he is
so
than
all the
us
longing for
concede
wealth
that
if all mankind
kill
few
a
frontier
and
in
or
inland
the
wild
fields,and
on
the
a
mind
a
a
far
of
course
on
on
and
the weird
and
trout
sea-coast
the
of woods, lakes,
than
higher purpose
of
moose
On
wrong.
satisfythe cravings of
President
nation
higher
the
creatures
If
duck-shootingtrip,so
of
a
statesman,
man,
nothing
wild
health
that
the
tame
or
stalk after deer and
stomach.
good
wild
eat
the
United
States
buoyant spiritsby going
that he can
more
safelysteer
and
difficulties,
by all
the ducks, whenever
could
The
question has
not
his duties
be sacrificed for
bags
he
gry
hun-
a
throusrh all the vicissitudes of national
international
in
bass
to
in
ply,
sup-
importance only
body
merely
the
food
and
ducks
serve
would
their offices to
woods, they do
stream
a
to
city,the dust,
health
gain new
on
the
As
general
the bustle
and
have
animals
of life so
is in
kills them
keep
can
of
are
form
This
or
the
or
of
heavy work.
vegetarians,and,
kill and
we
lower
marshes,
contrary they make
who
If
the wild
with
Most
for food
off the earth.
lightof
of
elasticity
?
our
turn
or
then
birds
leave
the artificial
streams,
do
to
fatigued business
man
professional
and
them
and
If the
Solomon
higher
vegetarianthey would
continue.
may
them
and
destroya
value
kill animals
concede
now
crowd
he would
rightto
settlements.
nature.
and
glory of
must
mammals
animals, we
form
and
became
and
wild
which
enslave
animals
kill them
and
it is
and
to
clothing,
These points we
127
PKOTECTION
still another
means
let him
permit.
a
more
The
worthy
aspect.
go
and
after
ducks
he
purpose.
If game
were
128
OUR
NATIVE
BIRDS
not
hunted
for sport,it would
the
market
hunter.
large number
the
while
Thus
and
birds
localities
and
few
a
would
beasts
in other
be hunted
of
be
excluded.
prey
would
destroyed to prevent damage
interests.
stock-raising
feel inclined
Therefore, if you
follow
the next
man
words
Don't
boy
:
wants
afford
what
a
Every
one
real
and
is not.
has
for farmers
unless
try to
procure
and
a
a
looked
kill
into
their
wolves
savage,
sportsman
never
he
never
nestlings. Nor
If your
if you
can
it, and
after chickens,
than
all the
pills
question knows
the
humanely
bounty hunters.
more
game
and
or
coyotes
for
bounty is,
for the sportsmen
well
as
he
chance
have
you
leaves
kill and
shoots
for sport, do not
woods
reasonable
the animal
does not
fawn,
other
as
stock-raisers.
have
you
!
that
twelvemonth.
a
into fields and
go
is not
A
and
hog
rod,
so
left,in
handle
to
good
hunters, head, skin
hunts
laws,
one
week
A
more
you
him
how
have
and
gun
fish
a
buy
means
however, doing good work
If you
or
taught
in
eat
sportsmen
who
man
him
what
who
hog
all
by
and
market
than
use
recreation
some
game
deer will do
or
buy
that
a
gun,
is game
can
you
be
it,but have
ducks,
A
will also have
some
would
inclination,but obey the game
your
In
or
agricultural
to
to
benefit,
crease,
greatly in-
animals
regionsgame
profitby
would
men
be
to
for
a
wounded.
doe
he
think
A
bor,
neigh-
he
use.
than
and
starves
of
bird
man
sports-
for his
more
kills the mother
would
kill,and always
to
something
catch
shoot
and
snaringor
can
the
ling
suck-
starves
the
trapping
GAME
wild creature
any
for hours,
The
or
in
a
would
forget
not
rights. Every species,except
to
exist, and
threatened
protect species
and
scientist
of
feelings
the
of the earth
is
of many
or
flora.
The
The
birds both
and
right
only with
ance
disappear-
regret,the
impoverished by
largemammals
the
view
can
fauna
alreadymuch
have
extermination.
and
deepestconcern
speciesfrom our
of any
other
by
the
animals
always been ready to
of nature
lover
that
has
parasite,
a
sportsmen have
true
prolong its misery
days.
does
sportsman
that
way
for
even
129
PROTECTION
fauna
the extinction
this and
on
of the
Many of the large mammals
Quaternary periodhave most likelybeen exterminated
Several
nations, including the
by prehistoricman.
continents.
United
States,have
asylum
an
this country
are
no
for the
have
we
undisturbed
has
would
without
like to
extinction.
interest
and
in
In
there
furnish
large game.
established
see
argument
all
This
an
The
African
its
elephantand
to
all bird
our
that every
wild
animals
lovers, and
to
of nature
lover
preserved
protection is, however,
do all in their power
As
not
for the African
reserves
nish
fur-
largegame.
It goes
fish
Park,
should
for
which
of the land.
creatures
the Yellowstone
government
possessionsforest
other
wild
reservations
why forest reserves
breeding ground
reasons
German
established
of
from
special
they should, therefore,
the
further
cause
of game
and
protection.
has
extinction
alreadybeen
of game
shown
birds would
in
a
previous chapter,the
undoubtedly be
followed
130
NATIVE
OUR
hunting of
the
by
BIRDS
while
But
birds.
song
have
we
game
birds to
and
real game
angle,and mammals
hunt, the shooting of song birds is looked upon as small
and
and
easily be
popular opinion can
disgraceful,
fish to
stigmatizeit as contemptibleand criminal.
cult
diffiprotecting song birds would be mucli more
educated
Laws
to
after
to enforce
fish and
our
England, Germany, France,
In
become
had
game
and
tinct.
ex-
Austria,
if rigidly
protectionof song birds, even
observed, are only partiallyeffective,because in several
South
protectedbirds
European countries these same
the
for
laws
caught, netted, and killed by tens of thousands
is no
during the fall and spring migrations. There
are
left in these
game
the
before
the
people
of bird
ethics
countries, and
there
to the
or
to the
League
is
not
may
normal
matter
near
future
devise
Drop
Sportsmen.
L.
A.
S. Warden
in
join
post card
a
state,
your
Sportsmen,19
a
in which
have
and
should
I
West
the
24th
the
entitle
which
academies,
league
them
to
to
for
and
a
in
say
their
I
of American
boys
of
classes
do
to
kindred.
wild
League
and
regret
begun
even
our
plan by
join
grades
all
interested,but
schools, and
college may
which
be
birds
the
towards
protection should
in game
of American
teachers
many
in the
a
should
schools
and
value
York.
Street,New
This
appreciate the
will
decades
take
protection.
Everyone interested
the League of American
for information
it will
hope
that
duty
that
Sportsmen
high schools,
young
nominal
membership
in
men
sum,
until
"
they
GAME
have
a
begun
is
year
get
to
earn
small
a
for themselves.
money
fee,but
it is
for many
college students.
the
boys, and
many
of them
Hunting
with
and
in
and
you
a
endurance
a
robust
the
as
doubted
strong
Let
to
it.
a
can
of the year,
and
and
rifle,
is
an
highly recommended
and
boys.
as
strong
are
nation.
European
have
had
and
as
It
has
opportunitiesfor
American
is
woman
Our
as
boys practiceall
girlsare
much
too
life.
and
their brothers
fields and
There
and
athletics,our
accompany
and
yard
greater zeal
even
sister.
European
in your
living creature.
any
men
men
average
indoor
an
them
woods
See:
the
taste, then
time
any
too
to
as
of any
of sports and
confined
with
well
as
shoot
gun
be
by people who
her
as
with
cannot
men
that
observing
at
calls for
American
average
then
harm
to
hunting
ladies
Camera
hunt
need
that
sport
The
league must
join if the right
against your
can
can
camera
than
girlsand
kinds
You
never
with
is
gun
camera.
will
Hunting
been
a
cityparks,you
outdoor
boy
school-
a
The
will
a
with
with
hunting
hunt
for
dollar
offered.
are
If
One
large sum
a
and
terms
to
131
PROTECTION
friends
experience the buoyancy
be
nothing unwomanly
of
in
into
ing
rough-
hunting
camera.
H.
S.
New
York
entirely. He
of instances, a
easier to follow
"Animals'
Salt.
says,
man
The
Rights."
author
Macmillan
condemns
pany,
Com-
hunting
*' The
sportsman being, in the great majority
he naturallyfinds it much
of slow perception,
and
London.
the hounds
than
The
to follow
an
argument."
132
native
our
Purpose
The
and
League
the
purpose
the
song,
classed
Its
Principles
the
American
OF
The
birds
protecting the
prime objectis
to
and
game
other
fishes ;
game
birds, not
innocent
birds.
game
exist,and
organizedfor
is
Sportsmen
insectivorous, and
as
League
the
Sportsmen
of American
of
of
to enforce
and
secure
laws, where
game
enforce
where
laws
such
such
not
in existence.
now
It aims
to
foster
to
and
of
and
fields and
unison
Avho
The
at
works
objectsin
of
American
other
On
vicAV.
League
A
person
notify the
who
may
L.
of
to
capital.
act in
authorities
municipal
in the
state
game
will
not
has
pete
com-
similar
to enlist
cooperate Avith,all such.
Sportsmen
or
to
the
laws
the
:
game
to
name
inno-
any
should
respectivestate
following manner
Game
opposed
killingof
of the game
the
is
fish,under
and
promptly
warden,
"
AVarden,
St.
office of the
game
it will
contrary, it desires
the
warden
State
The
propagation
organizationthat
of violations
S. game
be addressed
of nature
of
re-stocking
Sportsmen
American
knowing
A.
the
;
ends.^
similar
any
sportsmen
love
these ends
state, county, and
slaughterof game
are
opposed
sport. We
1
the
To
excessive
of
peoplea
encourage
Avaters.
of, and
sympatliies
The
to
;
fishes,and
game
League
Avith
of the
minds
public
with
aim
the
the
in
nature's
of game
good fellowshipamong
promote
warden
Paul,
is
Minn.
nearly always
at
the
state
134
KATIYE
OUR
day, among
found
and
men
BIRDS
boys,of killingevery
in tlie woods, for the
ARTICLE
2.
Sec.
Any
woman
sake
mere
of
livingthing
killing.
III
become
may
member
associate
an
of Section 1. Associate
by complyingivitlithe i^rovisions
shall have all the privileges
members
of the League except
those of votingand holdingoffice.
3.
Sec.
and
of the gosp)el
All ministers
U7iiversities^
colleges,
public or
all teachers
privateschools
who
in
will
can
pledgethemselves to cooperate with the League of Ameritheir people to respect game
Sportsmen in educatiyig
and fishlaws and to aid iyithe preservation
mals,
of birds,mambe made
orary
honfishesand forests,shall,on application,
Officers
L. A.
of the
members
of
League
the
President, G. O.
S.
of
Shields, 19
West
Sportsmen
American
Twenty-fourth street, New
York.i
1st
Sd
Vice-President, Dr. C. Hart
S.
Vice-President, E.
Merriam, Washington, D.C.
1J:4 Fifth
Thompson,
New
avenue,
York.
3d
Vice-President, Hon.
W.
A.
Richards, General
Office,
Land
AVashington,D.C.
W.
4thVice-President,
5thVice-P
Treasurer, F.
General
Honiaday,
resident,A. A. Anderson,
Arthur
Secretary,
Broadway,
T.
New
F.
S.
Wall
69
93
Fifth
Rice, 155 Pennington
Hyatt,
National
York.
street,New
avenue,
avenue,
Exchange
New
York.
Passaic,N.J.
Bank,
90
West
York.
Counsel, Julius
1
Taken
from
H.
Seymour,
35
W^all street.New
Hecreatiou, October, 1899.
York.
GAME
New
Yoini:
Pond, Chief Warden,
A. E.
Division.
Fifth
124
Pennsylvania
Chief
C. P. Emerson,
W.
Warden,
B.
Division.
Bishop, Chief Warden,
Lawton, Chief
4 Post-ofSce
Pratt, Chief
Warden,
Grand
Warden,
Chief
T.
Division.
Division.
Reutinger,Chief Warden,
Illinois
H.
W.
Loveday,
Chief
Smart, Chief
Warden,
Warden,
New
York.
Arthur
For
F.
a
G. N.
Gen.
orders
Rice, Secretary,19
list of Local
Building,Chicago.
Schiller
Division.
Applications
for memhenliip and
to
Athens.
Division.
Minnesota
S. A.
Milwaukee.
Drought, Chief Warden,
Ohio
L. H.
Whatcom.
Lander.
Warden,
Wisconsin
James
New
Division.
Wyoming
Dunham,
Missoula.
Division.
Stangroom, Chief Warden,
Dr. Frank
Rapids.
Division.
Washington
J. S.
c
Bridgeport.
Elrod, Chief Warden,
J.
Boston
Division.
Montana
Professor M.
square,
Division.
Michigan
J. Elmer
Plains.
Pompton
Connecticut
Ralph
Perry street,Titusville.
Division.
Massachusetts
Dr. Heber
York.
Division.
Jersey
Saun, Chief
Van
New
avenue,
Warden, 189 Xorth
New
A.
135
PROTECTION
Wardens
Office,St. Paul.
for badges
West
see
should
dressed
be ad-
Twenty fourth street,
Recreation.
136
NATIVE
OUR
Extracts
Mr.
from
Species Reported
BIRDS
'
as
Horxaday's
Extinct/
or
'
Report
Extinct.'
Becoming
Mammals.
"
The
largerquadrupeds, generally
Bison; Buffalo
(^Bosamericanus)
americana)
(^Alces
White-tailed
Virginia,or
Mule
Deer
Deer
{Cariacusvirginianus)
(Cariaciis
macrotis)
Black-tailed
Deer
Woodland
(^Rangifercaribou)
Prong-horned Antelope (^Antilocapra
americana)
Mountain
Sheep {Ovis montana)
Mountain
Goat
'
.
....
(Haplocerosmontanus)
Bears, generally,'
California
Black
GrizzlyBear
Bear
(Ursus
horribilis Jiorriceus)
(Ursus americanus)
Mountain
Red
Lion
(Felis concolor)
Lynx (Lynx rufus)
Otter
(Lutra canadensis)
Beaver
reports.
22
reports.
7
reports.
32
.....
reports.
1
report.
2
reports.
15
reports.
10
reports.
2
reports.
1
report.
2
reports.
reports.
1
report.
6
reports.
5
reports.
11
reports.
22
reports.
3
reports.
.....
(Castorcanadensis)
reports.
3
15
....
Jaguar {Felisonca)
Puma;
15
....
columbianus)
(Cai-iacus
Caribou
reports.
....
Elk; W2i^\t\(^Cervus
canadensis).
Moose
6
Bii'ds.
"
All birds,
generally
Game
birds,generally(meaning gallinaceous
species)
5
reports.
Shore
birds,generally
5
reports.
Geese
and
.
20 reports.
ducks, generally
egrets,generally; plume birds
Herons
and
Hawks,
generally
Owls, generally
.12
.
reports.
.
3
reports.
4
reports.
GAME
137
PROTECTION
30
reports.
20
reports.
13
reports.
Turkey (Meleagrisgallopdvo)
Wild
Grouse
Ruffed
(Botiasaumbellus)
Prairie
Grouse;
Pinnated
YiQ\\\Tympanuchus
canus)
1
{T//mpanuchus cupido)
Hen
Heath
report.
?nigratonus)
Passenger Pigeon (Ectopistes
35
reports.
Bluebird
(Slaliasialis)
15
reports.
Carolina
Paroquet {Conurus carolinensis)
Dnck
\yood
(A
ix
sponsa)^
Spoonbill{Aj'ajaajaja)
Pileated
From
"
than
or nianus)
calif
(^Pseudogryphus
Vulture
California
report.
3
reports.
4
reports.
4
reports.
1
report.
mammals
been
have
lists,these
above
the
in
included
are
of birds and
largernumber
much
a
1
10 reports.
pileatus)
(Ceophlceus
Woodpecker
reports.
.
(Campephilusprincipalis)
Woodpecker
Ivory-billed
5
.
(Ardea candidlssima)
Heron
White
reports.
.
ruber)
Flamingo {^Phcenicnpierus
Roseate
5
to believe that,
good reason
under present conditions,they are all certain to become
extinct
throughoutthe whole United States
practically
within
a
few
of
which
"
a
majority of
the
For
years.
total extinction
individual
is
there
because
selected
the
means
speciesor
race
the
probably is
"
the
of
death
above,
last
far away.
to
destined
qualifiedterm, practicalextinction, now
be applied
into very generallise,may
come
pro23erly
to
any
The
nature
has
specieswhich
that
it is
become
to
impossibility
an
representativesby seeking for
more
conspicuous
quickly it
any
is
regard for
the
All
preservationof
in
or
a
state
discover
The
them.
quadruped
exterminated.
the
rare
so
of
living
larger and
bird,
the
more
persons
who
have
the few
wild
herds
138
OUR
NATIVE
BIRDS
sheep,and
of elk, antelope,deer, mountain
'
mammals
game
be
warned
bison, and
the
by
buffalo
June
the
the
1, 1883,
;
and
United
thorough
taken
to
herds
of game
and
buffalo
drastic
the
more
fifteen for others
will find
"
of
representatives
our
those
of
eyes, it
that
certainty,
our
immediately
s]3lendid
once
ten
country
speciesto
mained
re-
absolutely
flocks of game
say
;
On
people
our
are
of
will
we
"
mark.
before
measures
remnants
ern
west-
buffaloes
the
absolute
quadrupeds, and
years
and
actuallyand
were
that
of the fact that
realization
a
predict,with
preserve
few
very
to
herds
to
seer
unless
wild
awoke
before
of
mated
esti-
was
individuals
hundred
years
the fate of the
requiresno
a
four
should
Montana
the
over
'big
herd
it
thousand
not
was
several
was
States
With
gone!
five hundred
less than
it
1880
In
Montana, Wyoming,
estimate
great buffalo
the
of
great northern
fur-buyersof
and
contained
I think
and
hunters
country,
our
in time.
act
range'
Dakota
in
still exist
fate of the
the
by
American
'the
that
other
for
birds,
and
some
without
stock
enough
a
cal
zoologi-
garden.
"
"
Conclusions
1.
Regarding
Throughout
River, except
all the
coyotes, are
the
Western
whole
in the
Mammals.
region west
Yellowstone
large quadrupeds, save
being
shot
down
several
"
of the Mississippi
Park
and
rado,
Colo-
and
gray
wolves
times
faster than
they multiply.
"
2.
Under
within
noted)
may
a
tion
existingconditions, their generalannihilafew years'time (save in the two localities
be
regarded as
a
certainty.
GAME
"
3.
Outside
horned
of
and
state
quadrupeds
can
fixed
a
able
financially
wardens
largeenough
who
are
within
their poiver^
power,
to
save
fact
tvho
or
nohlest
our
ever
that
any
large
in its wilderness
employ
force of
a
lance
surveil-
to kill game.
the ranchmen
hu7iters,
the
of
the
that
to maintain
and
coimtry residents
PacificCoast regions^are
to
inclined
guides
professional
other
and
and
accepted as
all persons
The
5.
be
is not
salaried game
over
grizzlybear, beaver,
so
sparselysettled
territory
hide and
breed
successfully
or
areas,
"
largespeciesto disappear;
closelyfollowed by the mountain
deer.
It should
western
prong-
be the next
goat, California
mule
"4.
be
it will
sheep, mountain
elk, and
actuallyprotected,the
areas
antelope will
139
PROTECTION
Rocky
ivho
only men
ivill have
of
species
wild
Mountain
have it
it ivithin their
animals
game
from completeannihilation.
"
These
6.
men
and
in money
that
animals
are
the
in food,
ones
by
furnish
now
the
who
will lose most, both
destruction
them
a
of the
valuable
game
of
source
revenue.
"Recommendations
of
matter
duty
Regarding
to
their
hunters, ranchmen, and
and
decide
of
that
Pacific
what
may
be
necessityof
"
2.
Coast
"
as
1.
the
Rocky
should
assemble
shall
placed
ujDon
to
be
the number
fees
and
of head
fines,and
As
a
guides,
regions
taken, license
total
"
interests, the
own
sportsmen of
restrictions
largegame
Mammals.
tain
Mounand
the
ing
kill-
per
man
as
to the
for given periods.
prohibition
inhabited by large
now
Every state and territory
140
should
game
killingof
.
hoofed
female
any
also
Throughout
and
skin
ten
head
or
duty
Henceforth
every
observance
"5.
female
No
guide
are
6.
the
In
view
who
kills a female
and
true
7.
should
in
game
of
Every
state
collect
a
fines should
wardens.
a
member
laws, to
game
hunting party in
of it pledged himself
decrease
shootingthat
for the
animal
of
large
adoption throughout
unwritten
an
in
all.
alarming
hoofed
honorable
and
his
circumstances
no
of moderation
rules
States
hunting ;
from
conduct
each
of the
United
of the
under
morallybinding upon
the
"
should
animals, it is time
game
a
times, and
as
territorial authorities
and
state
Western
regard it
should
enforcement
unless
to observe
be
yearlinganimals.
or
quest of game
"
all
any
habited
interritorynow
antelope, mountain
visitingthe
person
large game
and
sparinglyat
to shoot
now
of
cooperate with
to
in the
be
of law.
regions in quest
all
absolutelyprohibited
and
the possessionof a fresh
dence
regarded as frima facie evi-
of violation
"4.
and
state
killingof
;
should
and
any
old.
year
goats should
years
prohibitingthe
animal, under
one
the
mountain
for
law
a
prohibitingthe killingof
every
by them,
sheep
hoofed
less than
animal
"3.
BIRDS
immediately enact
circumstances, and
kill
NATIVE
OUR
law
is not
our
that
to be
any
man
considered
sportsman.
and
license
territory
containinglargegame
fee
all funds
be
used
on
each
derived
in
gun
from
payment
carried
this
or
source
used
and
of the salaries of
142
transmitted
be
state
"
after us, in
come
preservation.
of dispute,
the
Beyond all possibility
it is the
all
academies
our
and
museums,
duty
good
all
through its
Mr.
Frank
year
has
seems
Survey, the
Academy
to
should
a
Societyhas
active
assistance
States
Biological
Philadelphia
of Natural
Museum
versity,
Uni-
University,the
Stanford
University,
University,Cornell
entire
Leland
the
employ
fair allowance
his
devote
ing
Dur-
Zoological Society,Yale
York
and
Museum
past
designed
Audubon
Institution, the
Smithsonian
New
for the
annihilation.
United
the
that
us
and
in this state.
newspapers
Harvard
with
the
months,
New
Allen
measures
of Sciences, the American
History,the
each
in
from
remaining birds
300
over
Field
already,and
is
of
History,
J. A.
35,000 circulars,and solicited
out
"It
Natural
Dr.
through
Chapman,
last twelve
the
from
and
tion
co-opera-
State
the
of
Museum
been, activelyengaged
our
save
Society of
President
M.
protection.In
for
American
the
York,
zoologists,
to
higher institutions of learning,
activelyand aggressivelyinterested
Audubon
the
all American
now
our
comprehensivemeasures
with
of
has
time
societies and
science, zoological
of
become
and
unite
sent
a
of
when
in
BIRDS
those who
to
arrived
to
NATIVE
OUR
a
competent
for expenses,
time
and
provide
man,
and
to
energy
him
to
business
of
instruct
the
him
the ivhole
securing adequate protectivelaAVS tlirougliout
measures
United States,and in furtheringall legitimate
for the
to
protectionof
birds
that
four
believe
and
mammals.
good
men
It is
could
able
reason-
enter
the
GAME
Rocky
Mountain
of
great
and
We
believe
"
in
lasting
the
American
the
situation,
and
will
bring
behalf
of
Hhe
protectio7i
is
of
the
prime
one
Zoological
Society
two
is
ripe
for
destruction.
rise
yet
about
of
a
our
objects
was
guides
accomplish
years
time
of
forces
people
the
together
and
results
benefit.
the
that
the
against
than
less
"
bring
region,
and
ranchmen,
148
PROTECTION
founded."
for
a
general
We
to
the
believe
which
that
of
seriousness
revolution
complete
native
lion
rebel-
animals^''
the
New
in
which
York
SECTION
VIII
MISCELLANEOUS
INFORMATION
I.
Recreation.
1.
fourth
the
Published
street, New
of
League
of
status
the
Magazines
G.
by
York.
^1.00
American
a
O.
Shields,
On
Recreation,
see
the
Twenty-
The
Monthly.
year.
Sportsmen.
League,
AYest
19
work
and
and
April, 1899,
of
organ
present
succeeding
numbers.
Bird
2.
New
avenue,
devoted
Published
Lore.
York.
Bird
to
$1.00
The
by
a
Macmillan
and
Published
by
The
Bi-monthly.
year.
Protection
Company,
is the
of
organ
Fifth
66
is
magazine
The
Audubon
Societies.
The
3.
Auk.
The
Quarterly.
See
report of
the
number
of
valuable
Committee
a
New
Foster,
American
York
City.
Union.
Ornithologists'
Bird
on
New
Stream,
and
alike
to
the
report
in
Forest
Interstate
The
S.
Protection
in
the
January
1898.
Forest
4.
of
organ
L.
Game
Wardens'
Weekly.
City.
and
the
Stream
of
sportsman
and
York
Convention
naturalist.
February
held
A
See
esting
inter-
an
19, 1898,
on
in
Chicago
at
paper
the
ary,
Febru-
1898.
The
5.
Forester.
45
a
The
year.
forest
which
See
Wyatt
trees
Building,
magazine
and
ought
Volume
Published
to
in
IV, 1898, for
to
subjects.
every
a
The
American
D.
Washington,
is devoted
related
be
by
It
public
large
number
articles.
144
the
is
and
care
a
very
in
of
Forestry
C.
and
Monthly.
of
use
valuable
every
81.00
forests,
magazine,
school
interesting
ciation,
Asso-
and
library.
tive
instruc-
miscp:llaneous
"
6.
Our
for the
Animal
Friends.
Prevention
of
Dumb
Our
for the
Prevention
The
Education
The
American
Animals, ]\Iadison
to
Published
of
Cruelty
is also
paper
Societyand
National
the
by
Society
and
avenue
York.
Animals.
Boston, Mass.
8.
Published
Cruelty
Twenty-.sixthstreet,New
7.
145
information
the
by
Animals, 19 Milk
to
the organ
of
of the American
Humane
Massachusetts
Educator,
216
street,
the American
Bands
of
West
ciety
So-
mane
Hu-
Mercy.
Fourth
street,
Cincinnati,O.
Most
of these
magazines
will mail
n.
1.
in
The
regard to forming
Societies
See
Audubon
to
Mrs.
93.
page
Societies
be addressed
may
sample
copy.
Societies
Societies.
Audubon
free
a
Correspondence
other
or
Mabel
Bird
Protective
Osgood Wright,
field,
Fair-
Conn.
2.
The
League
3.
The
Agassiz
Mr.
H.
H.
of American
See pages
Sportsmen.
Association.
full
For
Ballard, Pittsfield,
Mass., or
132-135.
information
the
see
vv^rite to
Handbook
of the
Agassiz Association.
4.
the
Society for
Protection
of
Birds.
Hillcrest,Redhill, England.
Secretarif,
326
High Holborn,
5.
Bund
6.
American
der
Bands
Humane
of
school
8.
children
The
the Humane
Besides
some
E.
Lemon,
Publishing Department,
Austria.
Education
Society.
Geo.
P.
Angell,
street,Boston, Mass.
Mercy,
Boston, Mass.
F.
C, England.
Vogelfreunde, Graz,
President,19 Milk
7.
W.
Mrs.
These
of many
Geo.
P.
bands
Angell, President,19
have
been
Milk
organized
among
street,
the
cities,
towns, and country districts.
Societies for the Prevention
of
Crueltyto
Animals
and
Societies.
the
of these
general
societies
work
humane
have
done
very
done
by them,
effective work
146
OUR
bird
in
has
NATIVE
The
protection.
posted hundreds
any
information
of the
or
killingor
person
robbing
which
kill
to
thereof.
nests
L.
Miss
Wilson,
Axxa
Animals
:
of
hereby
offer twenty
the
of
Animals
shall convict
by killing any
United
in the
a
number
and
the
local
is taken
from
and
work
from
and
about
the
of
persons
for
the
violating
bird
insect-eating
street, New
that
report.
of local
the
T.
Angell,
Canada.
are
or
C.
of these
ties
socie-
In
states
societies
to the
many
The
For
in
these
foreign
report of 1899
A., Madison
York.
President.'"
organized.
similar
is referred
SocietyP.
Twenty-sixth
Society
important
societies
reader
American
the
States
information
for
countries
the
of
is found
its nest.
list of the most
a
Building."
BIRDS
Massachusetts
our
Geo.
I enclose
Secretary.
of Commerce
OF
which
by
Cruelty to
from
taking eggs
slings
prizes of $10 each, and forty prizes of if5
of Massachusetts
laws
or
"
each, for evidence
Prevention
rubber
Wright,
August, 1899,
"PROTECTION
I
with
birds,
President.
Y.
Chamber
followingoffer
Boys
harmless
of
SOCIETY,
W.
Dumb
any
conviction
and
warned.
HUMANE
In Our
"
REWARD
attempting
hereby
are
pop-guns
Paul, Minn.,
folloAving
placard:
will lead to the arrest
destroyingthe
or
St.
societyof
"$5.00
For
BIRDS
and
avenue
list here
of
given
Concerning the organization
societies,information
respectivestate society.
can
be
tained
ob-
MISCELLANEOUS
Humane
Societies
The
York.
New
Canada
and
the Prevention
of
Twenty-sixth street,New
Society for
Prevention
the
of
Cruelty
York.
Cruelty
to
Royal street,Mobile.
Society for
Arizona.
and
avenue
South
16
Animals.
States
Societyfor
American
Mobile
Alabama.
United
the
in
Madison
to Animals.
147
INFORMATION
the
of
Prevention
Cruelty
Animals.
to
Tucson.
The
California.
Cruelty to
Society. Little
Humane
Arkansas.
403
Animals.
Colorado
Colorado.
Francisco
San
Rock.
Societyfor
Humane
Society.
Jacobson
5
of
Francisco.
Building,San
Parrott
Prevention
the
Building,
Denver.
District
Room
10, Sun
The
Columbia.
of
D.
Building,Washington,
Augustine Humane
St.
Georgia.
Georgia Society for
1 Mcintosh
Cruelty to
Flumane
St,
Augustine.
of
Prevention
the
Society.
C.
Society.
Cruelty to
street,Augusta.
Society.
Illinois Humane
The
Illinois.
of
the Prevention
Washington
Florida.
Animals.
Hartford.
Society.
street,Wilmington.
Market
606
Humane
Societyfor
Delaware
Delaware.
Animals.
Connecticut
The
Connecticut.
560
Wabash
avenue,
Chicago.
Indiana
The
Indiana.
Society. 42
Humane
Lombard
ing,
Build-
Indianapolis.
Iowa.
The
Masonic
Louisiana.
to Animals.
Maine.
Humane
Temple,
Louisiana
State
Commercial
606
State
Maine
Wichita.
Society
West
411
Moines.
Des
Society.
Humane
Kentucky
Kentucky.
Cruelty.
Kansas
The
Kansas.
Society.
Humane
Iowa
Prevention
of
street,Louisville.
Green
Society for
Prevention
of
Cruelty
Orleans.
place,New
Society for
for
the
Protection
of Animals.
Portland.
Maryland.
Cruelty to
The
Animals.
Maryland
323
North
Society
Charles
for
the
Prevention
street,Baltimore.
of
148
OUR
Massachusetts.
of
The
Animals.
Chamber
St.
the
tion
Preven-
street, Boston.
the
Prevention
Animals.
Missouri.
The
Columbia
Society for
of
Crueltyto
MississippiSociety for
National
Humane
of
and
Locust
506
and
508
streets,St. Louis.
Humane
Society. 15
Commercial
Building,Omaha.
Hampshire.
New
Animals.
Crueltyto
Jersey.
Crueltyto
Cruelty.
tlie Prevention
Society of Missouri.
Nebraska
The
Bank
of
Natchez.
Building,Eighth
Nebraska.
Prevention
Paul.
Building, St.
The
Cruelty to
287
Paul
of Commerce
Mississippi,
New
Societyfor
Detroit.
Minnesota.
New
19 Milk
Michigan Societyfor
Michigan.
of
BIRDS
Massachusetts
Animals.
Cruelty to
New
NATIVE
1 Market
The
New
Animals.
York.
Hampshire Societyfor
The
Prudential
Mohawk
Prevention
street,Portsmouth.
Jersey Society for
507
the
and
the
Prevention
of
Building,Newark.
Hudson
River
Humane
Society.
State street,Albany.
North
Carolina.
of
Ohio.
The
Cruelty to
The
Oregon.
Oiiio
The
North
Animals.
17
Humane
Oregon
Carolina
Society for
the
vention
Pre-
Paragon Building,Ashville.
Society. 24
Humane
East
Ninth
Society.
cinnati.
street,Cin-
Third
72
street,
Portland.
Pennsylvania.
of
Crueltyto
Rhode
The
Animals.
Island.
Crueltyto
of
Cruelty to
to Animals
Texas.
to Animals.
and
The
Chestnut
Island
Rhode
South
Tlie
Animals.
the
Prevention
Carolina
Society for
Society for
Children.
337
Humane
of
the
vention
Pre-
Charleston.
the
Prevention
Mississippiavenue,
Societyfor
the
Society. Salt
Lake
of
Cruelty
Memphis.
Prevention
Galveston.
Utah
Prevention
street,Providence.
Tennessee
Galveston
the
street,Philadelphia.
Society for
61 Westminster
Animals.
Tennessee.
Utah.
1627
Carolina.
South
Pennsylvania Societyfor
City.
of
Cruelty
150
NATIVE
OUR
BIRDS
Office of Road
Inquiry.
Gardens
Experimental
Division
The
of Publications.
Library.
Office of Fibre
Investigation.
of Animal
Bureau
Section
Industry.
of Statistics.
Division
of
Foreign
free upon
A
list of
publicationsfor
2.
A
list of
publicationsavailable
3.
A
monthly
Among
list of
the most
sale at
is here
bulletins
are
Some
sent
price.
available
given,but
many
other
Potato
charge
to any
address
Diseases
Plants
for
16.
Legumhious
No.
18.
Forage
No.
19.
Important Insecticides
Green
Barnyard
No.
22.
Feeding
No.
23.
Foods
No.
24.
Hog
No.
25.
Peanuts:
No.
26.
Sweet
:
:
Directions
Animals.
Nutritive
Value
and
and
Swine
Plague.
Cholera
Culture
Potatoes
Only
:
What
They
Are
and
and
for
ing.
Feed-
for the South.
Manure.
Farm
D. C.
plicatio
ap-
"
Manuring
Use.
21.
:
upon
Them.
No.
No.
valuable
lists mentioned.
for distribution
to Prevent
Plants
the Farmers'
publicationsare
Bulletins
free of
Destructive
How
and
nominal
Secretaryof Agriculture,Washington,
followingare
15.
C, furnishes
for free distribution.
in the three
Farmers'
to the
a
popular government
be found
will
publications
No.
D.
publications.
new
Bulletins,a list of which
These
Washington,
application:
1.
the
Markets.
Superintendentof Documents,
The
Grounds.
and
:
and
Cost.
Uses.
Culture
and
Uses.
for Their
Preparation
MISCELLANEOUS
No.
27.
Flax
No.
28.
Weeds:
And
No.
29.
Souring
of
No.
30.
Grape
No.
31.
Alfalfa,or Lucern.
No.
32.
Silos and
No.
33.
Peach
No.
34.
Meats
No.
35.
Potato
Culture.
No.
36.
Cotton
Seed
No.
37.
Kafir
No.
38.
Sprayingfor
No.
39.
Onion
No.
40.
Farm
Drainage.
No.
41.
Folds
:
No.
42.
Facts
About
No.
43.
Sewage Disposalon
No.
44.
Commercial
No.
45.
Some
No.
46.
in
Irrigation
No.
47.
Insects
No.
48.
The
No.
49.
Sheep Feeding.
No.
50.
Sorghum
as
No.
51.
Standard
Varieties
No.
52.
The
No.
53.
How
to Groia
No.
54.
Some
Common
No.
55.
The
No.
56.
Experiment
No.
57.
Butter
No.
58.
The
No.
59.
Bee
No.
60.
Methods
No.
61.
Asparagus
for Seed
and
Fiber.
How
to Kill
Milk, and
Diseases
Them.
Other
Changes
in Milk
Products.
the Pacific Coast.
on
Silage.
for Market.
Growing
Composition
:
151
INFORMATION
and
Corn
:
and
Cooking.
Its Products.
Characteristics,
Culture, and Uses.
Fruit
Diseases.
Culture.
Care
and
Feeding.
Milk.
the Farm.
Fertilizers.
Injuriousto
Insects
Humid
Cotton
Forage Crop.
a
of
Chickens.
Beet.
Sugar
Mushrooms.
Birds
Herd
Bean
Pielation to
Work.
Vol.
the Farm.
on
as
in Their
Its Formation
:
Station
Making
a
Forage Crop.
Keeping.
of
Plant.
of Cotton.
Manuring
Soy
Grain.
Climates.
Affectingthe
Dairy
Stored
Curing
Culture.
Tobacco.
and
I.
Agriculture.
Management.
152
NATIVE
OUR
Farm
BIRDS
Produce.
No.
62.
Marketing
No.
63.
Care
No.
64.
Ducks
No.
65.
Experiment
No.
66.
Meadows
No.
67.
Forestryfor Farmers.
No.
68.
The
No.
69.
Experiment
No.
70.
The
No.
71.
Some
No.
72.
Cattle
No.
73.
Experiment
No.
74.
Milk
No.
75.
The
No.
76.
Tomato
No.
77.
The
No.
78.
Experiment
Station
Work.
Vol. V.
No.
79.
Experiment
Station
Work.
Vol.
No.
80.
The
of Milk
the Farm.
on
Geese.
and
Station
and
Black
Vol. II.
Work.
Pastures.
Rot
of the
Station
Cabbage.
PrincipalInsect
Essentials
Vol. III.
Work.
of the
Enemies
of Beef
Grape.
Production.
in the Southwest.
Ranges
Station
Vol. IV.
Work.
Food.
as
Grain
Smuts.
Growing.
Liming
Peach
of Soils.
Twig-borer ;
an
VI.
Important Enemy
Fruits.
Culture
in the South.
No.
81.
Corn
No.
82.
The
No.
83.
Tobacco
No.
84.
Experiment
No.
85.
Fish
No.
86.
Thirt)/Poisonous
No.
87.
Experiment
No.
88.
Alkali
No.
89.
Cowpeas.
No.
90.
The
No.
91.
Potato
No.
93.
Sugar
No.
94.
The
No.
95.
Good
No. 96.
Culture
as
of Tobacco.
Soils.
Station
Work.
Vol. VII.
Food.
Plants.
Station
Work.
Vol. Vm.
Lands.
Manufacture
Diseases
as
of
and
Sorghum Sirup.
Tlieir Treatment.
Food.
Vegetable
Roads
Garden.
for Farmers.
Raising Sheep
for Mutton,
of
Stone
MISCELLANEOUS
Station
No.
97.
Experiment
No.
98.
Suggestionsto
No.
99.
Three
Southern
are
Vol.
of Shade
elsewhere.
scattered
now
and will do
citizens,
generallyrefer
valuable
particularly
List
mail
them
to
in the
States
to
list of
January
the
in, p. 937
Office
of
Bulletin
of those
1897
publications issued
1, 1S92,
;
a
list of those
Experiment
23,
p.
issued
in Bulletin
United
Stations.
States
58;
a
47,
and
in
61 ;
a
list of tliose issued
in Bulletin
p. 57.
other
For
cations
publi-
country, and
Stations
more
stations
the
during
Stations, p.
for 1896
of the
Their
are
in
the
i
: Agricultural
following manner
Anthony Park, Minn.).
the
by
issued
Europe
STATES
published
was
future.
Canada
and
UNITED
A
in
and
sections.
Experiment Station, St.
1
States
telligen
that is of interest to in-
Experiment
in
United
established
near
specialsections
for those
United
the
over
long been
more
Agricultural
of
(Address
to
Stations
published much
have
They
Trees.
Experiment
Canada, and similar stations have
and
X.
Farmers.
Agricultural
stations
These
Work.
Insect Enemies
IV.
153
INFORMATION
Experiment
1892
and
1893
for 1895
information
Bulletin
States
United
in Bulletin
27,
list of
those
on
these
19
during
in Bulletin
a
prior
Record, Vol.
Station
issued
list of those
39, p. 58, and
countries, see
of the
p.
1894
59;
a
issued
stations
59, office of
of
in
the
in
list
for
the
Experiment
154
OtJR
UNITED
NATIVE
^TATEH"
CANADA.
BIRDS
Concluded
MISCELLANEOUS
A
1.
Wright.
2.
Merriam.
Few
Books
Bird
Grant.
Our
4.
Blanchan.
Birds
Blanchan.
Wright.
7.
Baskett.
Birds
8.
Company,
The
Jordan.
Hunt
that
Citizen
New
How
Know
to
"
Chai'les
Them.
York.
Story
and
Company,
McChirg
"
Tlie
the
of
Doubleday
Hunted.
are
"
Mass.
Boston,
Bird.
Macmillan
D.
Birds.
York.
New
Company,
"
Appleton
Company,
Y^ork.
Manual
of
the
This
of
States.
birds,
publishers.
all
vertebrates
For
other
see
the
book
C.
A.
Vertebrates.
Chicago.
on
Mifflin
Houghton,
Doubleday
Neighhors.
McClurg
6.
York.
Mass.
Boston,
5.
Field.
and
New
Sons,
Bird
New
Mass.
Boston,
Scribner's
Beginner
the
Company,
and
Village
Common
to
Macmillan
The
of
Company,
3.
Helpful
Birdcraft.
Birds
155
IXFOKMATION
gives
in
known
valuable
catalogues
keys
but
the
more
and
McClurg
and
brief
Northern
expensive
advertisements
"
pany,
Com-
tions
descripUnited
books
of
156
NATIVE
OUR
God
What
made
the
wonder,
that
then,
can
alone
make
That
life
holds
out
be
threatened
least
and
country,
That
And
BIRDS
man
health
sweet
to
all,
in
made
and
bitter
should
most
fields
town;
virtue,
the
the
the
gifts
draught
abound
and
AViLLIAM
groves.
COWPER.
158
INDEX
Frank,
Bond,
75-77.
sparrow,
Books, bird,
Borggreve.
fighting the English
on
Child
155.
Coulter, 22;
Whitney
and
22.
for
Broion.
ropf,
boxes,
Illustrated
57.
(figure),
(J.
and
so-called
bird
8.
remarks
nesting
on
40.
day's
regarding birds, Horna122.
report,
Conclusions
Western
regarding
Hornaday's
mammals,
report,
138.
Britton
Broicn,
Flora, 22.
Parson
and.
Illustrated
The
and.
Wild
ers
Flow-
of California, 22.
Bulletins, farmers', 150.
Burning-bush
Construction
of
bathing
and
ing
drink-
basins, 43.
(verse), 107.
thrasher
Buck,
swallows, 38.
copious, 24.
species with
(
Collectors,84.
Collectors, boys,
Conclusions
and
Brown
bird
22.
Flora,
tree, liirds'
Concluding
8.
shelves
Britton
Christmas
students,
; j)rovide,33.
Boy, a (verse), 107.
Boys, collectors, and so-called
Branching,
chickadee
Coil, tarred
Boxes, nesting
Bracket
for, 36.
Vogelschutzfrage, Chipmunks,
of.
Botany, Manual
Gray, 22.
Botany of California.
students,
and
(verses),120.
boxes
(verses),120.
squirrels and, 68.
Ciiippie (verses), 113.
Die
63.
Watson,
Chickadee, child and
Chickadees, nesting
Copious branching, species with,
Coulter.
Manual
of Botany, 22.
Creepers, nesting boxes for, 37.
Crows, 70.
24.
31,
(figure),
D
Mrs.
Dana,
Flowers,
California,Botany
of.
Wild
22 ; The
Watson,
Parson
and
Whitney
Buck,
Flowers
and
of.
a, 131.
with
hunting
(verses), 109.
Carrion
places, 59.
Catbird
(verses),109.
Cat-proof fence (figure) 67.
of birds, 8.
Cats causing decrease
birds
Cats, protecting
against, 64-67.
Camera,
wild
Canary,
,
Causes
for
birds,
the
of
Causes
of
in
bird
decrease
Hornaday's
red ;
Cedar,
decrease
6.
report,
11.
burning-bush
and
the
; difficult to
States,
Chapman.
Flora
United
States, 22.
Cheyenne,
79, 80.
Wild
22.
Decrease
of ;
causes
Hornaday's
bird
in
on
life,
report, 11.
of birds, per cent of, 2.
of game
birds, the, 13.
Decrease
Decrease
of
birds,
song
causes
for
the, 6.
Dense
foliage and
fruit,species
fering,
of-
26.
Dense
fruit, 25.
Directions,
ure),
(fig-
general,
for
of
nesting
boxes, 33.
bird
United
the
foliage,species with, 24.
Department of agriculture, 149.
account
species ; on
life, Desirable
song
31.
Census,
to know
Elizabeth
B,
Davenport, Mrs.
birds
in
46-53.
winter,
feeding
Decrease,
22.
How
Wy.,
of
take,
5 ; of
Directory
93,
1.
the
Southern
list of birds
from,
of
Audubon
societies,
94.
Dogs, 67.
Drinking
and
bathing
fountains,
42.
Duck,
wood
;
nesting boxes
for, 39.
159
INDEX
Dust
fruit, species
offering,26; species with dense,
Foliage, dense,
(verses) 118.
wild
Ducks,
,
baths, 62.
and
24.
Food,
birds
song
90;
the lack
and
bathing, 42.
of,
9.
Educating adults, 92.
Educating the growing
generation, Fountains, drinking
Foxes, 68.
96.
Education
and
Fruit, species desirable
of, 25.
birds, 92.
the
boards, 58.
natural, protecting
Enemies,
birds from
their, 64.
the, 9.
English sparrow,
Elevated
the
at
black
3.
fiir
Futterplatze
protection
lover's
pomt
(figure)23.
,
General
parks, 61.
public
birds
in
winter, 46-61.
Feeding
partridges,59.
house
,
of the
Chapman,
Flowers
for
nestingboxes,
suggestionson
tree
planting
for birds, 28.
educating
the
growing,
96.
Gravel,
Gray.
at, 29.
63.
Botany, 22.
blue heron
Great
(verses) 113.
blue-winged
teal,
Green-winged
Manual
of
,
or
(verse),104.
104.
Grosbeak, rose-breasted (verse),
43.
snow,
eating
Grosbeaks, evening,
the,
Growing generation,educating
and
Britton
96.
Gunners,
Southern
niitzlichen.
Unsere
Giessen, bird island
,
Flora
of view, 126.
directions
Generation,
Feeding-places, special,58.
Feeding prairiechickens, 59.
Feeding quail,59.
Feeding ruffed grouse, 59.
67.
Fence, cat-proof (figure),
65.
of wire netting,
Fence
Field places, 58.
Fish and hunt, is it right to, 126.
Floating basins, 44.
Floating bird basin (figure)45.
Flora, Illustrated.
Brown, 22.
nature
33.
General
(figure)60.
for birds
the
from
Kohelt, 40.
bulletins, 150.
Feeding
Feeding
Feeding
of, 13.
birds, the decrease
Gartenvogel,
in
Winter.
43.
153.
birds
im
Vogel
Liebe, 63.
stork
bittersweet
or
summer
19.
Game
Farmers'
in
25.
that
stations, agricultural,Game
Experiment
ripens
that
25.
ripens late in autumn,
Furnishing trees, vines, and shrubs,
of, 16.
Evening grosbeaks eating snow,
Evergreens, planting of, 20.
Europe,
ing,
foliage,speciesoffer-
dense
autumn,
Fruit
for Minnesota,
of birds
and
account
on
26.
kept in
English sparrow
75-79.
Wy.,
Cheyenne,
question, 72-79.
English sparrow
(verses),111.
English sparrow
Estimate
Fruit
Fruit
check
False
as,
ubiquitous, 87.
States.
United
22.
H
hummingbirds, 27.
know
to
Wild, How
for
Flowers,
Mrs. Dana,
Parson
22; Wild,
and Buck,
Flycatchers,shelf
and
of
the.
nia.
Califor-
22.
laths
for, 38.
Hats, birds on, 9, 81.
68.
Hawks,
blue
(verses),113;
Heron,
great
snowy
(verses),103.
160
INDEX
Homes,
our,
attracting birds to,
Horuaday's
report,
causes
American
of
creaseLeague
de-
life,11 ; conclusions
birds,
122; conclusion
regarding
138
mammals,
regarding Western
in bird life,2
per cent of decrease
(verses),118.
Sportsmen,
meadow
Lark,
19.
for
Constitution,
in bird
;
;
from,
extract
officers,134;
of
directory
133;
purpose
principlesof, 132.
and
Liebe.
Vogel
fiir
Futterplatze
im
Winter, 63.
dations
questions sent out, 1 ; recommenfiir Vogel, 40.
Liebe.
Nistkasten
123
ommendations
regarding birds,
; recLime, 63.
regarding Western
List of birds from Brattleboro, Vt.,
139
as
mammals,
; species reported
53.
extinct or becoming extinct, 136.
from
Cheyenne, Wy.,
House, feeding; for birds (figure), List of birds
79.
60.
injury caused
sparrow,
in
the
Societies
House
Humane
States
76.
Lake
in Minnesota,
13.
United
directory of,
Canada,
and
by,
Loon
M
147.
144.
Magazines,
(verses),108.
Hummingbird
flowers
for, 27.
Hummingbirds,
Hunt
and fisb,is it right to, 126.
131.
Hunting with a camera,
injurious birds and, 10;
recommendations
regarding, Hornaday's report, 139.
Mammals,
Mammals
and
birds
extinct,
extinct,
or
Horuaday's
coming
beport,
re-
136.
and
Britton
Flora.
Illustrated
Broion, 22.
Information, miscellaneous. 111.
10.
Injuriousbirds and mammals,
Injury
caused
by
the
house
sparrow,
76.
Is it
right to
fish ? 126.
and
hunt
Island, bird;
Islands, groves,
Giesseu, 29.
commemorative
of noted
at
parks,
and
woods,
ogists,
ornithol-
Martin,
purple, nesting
38.
Meadow
Miscellaneous,
(verses) 117.
Natural
Schutz
den
62.
information,
birds
Vogelu, 40.
enemies,
from
protecting
of food, the, 9.
Lack
of
Lack
of water,
and, 30.
lover's point of view, game
Nature
protection from, 126.
Nature,
rural
schools
Lake,
Loon;
7.
in Minnesota,
13.
remarks
40; for bluebirds, 37; chicka=
dees, 36; creepers, 37; flycatchers,
37 ; small
38 ; nuthatches,
owls,
38 ; swallows, 38 ; the purple maron,
nesting places,0.
the
their, 64.
Nesting boxes, concluding
Lack
144.
(verses),101.
N
K
Kobelt.
(verses),118.
lark
JNIinks,68.
day law
Minnesota, oird and arbor
of birds
for, 3;
of, 94; estimate
Lake
Loon
in, 13.
Mockingbird
Jay, blue
Jays, 70.
for,
Masefield. Wild Bird Protection, 40.
Material, nesting, 62.
Miscellaneous
95.
boxes
161
INDEX
wood
mice,
duck, 39; tit36; woodpeckers, 37; wrens,
tin, 38;
36 ;
the
provide,33.
Nesting material, 62.
Nesting places, lack of, 6.
Netting, wire; cut on the bias, 66;
fence
Provide
nesting boxes, 33.
parks, feeding birds in, 61.
Purple martin, nesting boxes for, 38.
Public
and
Purpose
A. S., 132.
principlesof
Vogel.
Liehe, 40.
Noted
ornithologists; islands, groves,
parks, and woods commemorative
fiir
of, 95.
Nuthatches,
nesting
boxes
Quail (verse) 116.
Question, the English sparrow,
,
Hornaday's
O
Oriole
Oriole, Baltimore
(verse),106.
(verses),119;
chard
or-
attracting birds
them,
to
19.
(verses),117.
Owls, 68
;
nesting
boxes
Red
for, 38.
31.
Red-headed
woodpecker
The
Buck.
boxes,
concluding,
20.
watering of, 20.
Poison, use
of, in farming
is it,to hunt
Robin
(verses),108.
the
L.
A. S., 132.
birds
lover's
against cats,
64-67.
song birds, etc., 19.
their
the birds from
ui*al enemies,
and
nature,
30.
Sara, Uncle, 101, 102, 103, 104, 106,
107, 121 ; the birds before, 99.
Schools, bird day in the, 98 ; rural,
and
30.
nature,
Kohelt, 40.
Shelves, bracket; for sAvallows, 38.
Schutz
Vogeln.
den
nat-
nature
;
furnishing
08.
(verses) 103.
Snowy
in the United
Societies, 145 ; humane,
and
States
Canada, directory of,
,
147.
food, 90;
the decrease
of, 6.
of stock, 20.
Source
Song
64.
the
from
game,
126.
of
view,
point
Protection,
66.
heron
9.
Protecting
Protecting
Protecting
schools
dening, Skunks,
gar-
and
and, of
fish,126.
grosbeak (verse),104.
Shrubs, trees, and vines
them
to birds, 19.
Plants,
Principles, purpose
nesting
on
S
to, 19.
Plant, what
Paul,
ers
Flow-
birds, general suggestionson, 28.
Planting
and
Right,
Rope coil,tarred,
of California, 22.
Places, nesting, lack of, 6; carrion,
59; field,58; waste, 30.
for, 20; tree, for
Planting, time
of evergreens,
St.
40.
in, 61.
Wild
at
4.
Rural
Parks, public,feeding birds
mals,
mam-
report, 139.
tanager and (verse),116.
Cedar, burning-bush and
ure),
(fig-
Rose-breasted
and
regarding
Redbird,
Remarks,
of, 95.
homes,
report, 123.
Hornaday's
(verse), 106.
Ornithologists,noted ; islands, groves,
commemorative
parks, and woods
Our
regarding birds,
Recommendations
Officers of the L. A. S., 134.
Orchard
72-79.
for, 37,
Recommendations
Parson
L.
of, 65.
Nistkasten
Owl
the
birds,
Southern
the.
as
United
Chapman,
States,
22.
causes
Flora
for
of
162
INDEX
Sparrow, English, 9; kept in check
at Cheyenne, Wy., 75-79 ; (verses),
111 ; house
by, 70.
; injury caused
Sparrow question, the English, 72-
Unsere
niitzlichen
Gartenvogel.
Ko-
farming
dening,
gar-
belt, 40.
Use
of
poison
in
and
9.
79.
Special feeding-places,58.
account
on
Species desirable
25.
fruit,
Species offeringfruit and dense
26.
Species reported as extinct, or
extinct, Hornaday's
of
them
port,
re-
Squirrelsand
Stock,
St.
Paul,
Unsere
woodpecker
Germany,
Europe,
16 ; white
places, .30.
Water,
;
15.
vogel,
Garten-
W
lack
Watering
; of
niitzlichen
40.
Waste
red-headed
at, 4.
Stork, black
in
of, 20.
source
ing
furnish-
63.
copious branching, 24.
dense
foliage,24.
chipmunks, 68.
with
shrubs;
birds, 19.
fiir. Liebe, 40.
Vogel, Nistkiisten
Sehutz
den.
Vogeln,
Kobelt, 40.
comingVogelschutzfrage, Die.
beBorgyreve,
Voigt.
with
to
and
age,
foli-
136.
Species
Species
Vines, trees,
Watson,
of, 7.
of
plants, 20.
and.
Whitney
Botany
of
California, 22.
Students, bird
; boys and collectors,8. Weasels, 68.
Western
conclusions
Suggestions, general ; on tree planting
mammals,
garding,
refor birds, 28.
Hornaday's report, 138.
shelves for, 38; What
to plant, 19.
Swallows, bracket
White
110.
stork in Germany, 15.
(verses),
Watson.
Whitney and
Botany of
California,22.
Wild
Bird Protection.
Masefield,40.
Wild
Tanager and redbird (verse),116.
(verses) 109,
canary
Wild
Tarred
ducks
(verses) 118.
rope coil,66.
Wild
know
to
Teal, blue-winged or green-winged
the.
Flowers, How
Mrs.
22; of California.
(verse), 104.
Dana,
Parson
and Buck, 22.
(verse) 107.
Thrasher, brown
Time
Wild
vine (figure),21.
for planting, 20.
yam
Titmice, nesting boxes for, 36.
Winter, feeding birds in, 46-61.
57.
with
Wire, barb, coil ; tree trunk
Tree, birds' Christmas
(figure),
Tree planting for birds, general suggestions (figure) 36.
Wire
the bias, 66 ;
netting, cut on
on, 28.
,
,
,
,
Tree
trunk
with
barb
wire
36.
,
Trees, vines, and shrubs
them
to birds, 19.
Twiners, 20.
;
coil
ure)
(fig-
fence
of,
65.
W^ood
duck, nesting boxes for, 39.
St.
Woodpecker,
red-headed, at
furnishing
115.
Paul, 4; (verse),
Woodpeckers, nesting boxes for, 37.
Wrens,
nesting boxes
for, 36.
U
85.
Ubiquitous gunners,
Uncle
103, 104, 106,
101,
102,
Sam,
107, 121
; the
birds
before,
99.
Yam
vine, wild
21.
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