. Bird-lore . ame. The mother bird would stayon her nest until you almost could touch her with your hand, but the malebird was always shy. They could tell when a stranger came and would invariably make an out-cry and leave the nest for a little while. After the little ones were large enoughto leave the nest and fly around, they remained in the vicinity until fullyfledged. In 1919, the same pair of Robins came back, and after a careful inspectionof their old nesting-place, concluded to make their home in a maple tree thatstood close to the open shed, and there they built a nest and reared their
. Bird-lore . ame. The mother bird would stayon her nest until you almost could touch her with your hand, but the malebird was always shy. They could tell when a stranger came and would invariably make an out-cry and leave the nest for a little while. After the little ones were large enoughto leave the nest and fly around, they remained in the vicinity until fullyfledged. In 1919, the same pair of Robins came back, and after a careful inspectionof their old nesting-place, concluded to make their home in a maple tree thatstood close to the open shed, and there they built a nest and reared theiryoung. Will they come back in 1920? I certainly hope so.—C. B. Fish,Plainview, L. I., N. Y. [This is a good example of the comradeship of birds. We all get a great deal of inno-cent pleasure from the birds that nest about our dwellings and hope that they will comeback to us the following years. Those who do not have birds nesting near their dwell-ings miss much of that which makes a perfect home.—A. A. A.]. RESULTS OF A BIRD-HOUSE COMPETITION AT SARATOGA SPRINGS, UNDER MilDIRECTION 01 MISS KATE McCLOSKE? The Audubon Societies 187 AN EXPERIENCE WITH CARDINALS I am a member of the Junior Audubon Society of Alexandria, Va., and wehave a very large society. We have been studying some very interesting birds. One day last summer I went out walking and saw a Cardinal. He lookedlike a huge ball of fire. He would fly into the meadow and light on the thought he must have his nest there, but he did not. He and some otherswere eating corn in the meadow. The farmer had cut it and left some in thefield. It had shucks on it, and I shucked some and put it aside. Then I gotabout thirty feet away and stood like a tree. The Cardinal and his matecame and ate about twelve grains of corn. I noticed that the mother bird didnot eat her food. She took it and flew away to a cluster of trees where I sawher stop. Soon I saw her coming back after more, and she found the fatherbird still gobbli
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