. Bird lore . he contents and given it to the little ones. The cherries ripened by July, and manyspecies of birds came to the tree. It wascurious to note how diiTerently they ate thefruit. The Robins pulled off the cherriesand flew to the sidewalk, where they pickedthem to pieces ; the Bluebirds attacked onlythose that had fallen on the ground ; whilethe Oriole ate one as soon as he pulled it visited the tree. Instead of sitting on abranch and pulling at one, as the Robinsdid, he poised himself in the air and tuggedat the cherry until it was wrenched fromits stem. Then he flew to the near birc
. Bird lore . he contents and given it to the little ones. The cherries ripened by July, and manyspecies of birds came to the tree. It wascurious to note how diiTerently they ate thefruit. The Robins pulled off the cherriesand flew to the sidewalk, where they pickedthem to pieces ; the Bluebirds attacked onlythose that had fallen on the ground ; whilethe Oriole ate one as soon as he pulled it visited the tree. Instead of sitting on abranch and pulling at one, as the Robinsdid, he poised himself in the air and tuggedat the cherry until it was wrenched fromits stem. Then he flew to the near birchand balanced the fruit by giving it littletosses in the air, two or three inches abovehis head, catching it every time it it disappeared down his throat. During the season seven birds built uponthe premises — and why? If it was thebird bath, the mud and the nesting mate-rial about the yard, then birds can easilybe attracted by others.—MaryE. Dolbear,Tufts College, Mass. Light sprinc| YYi ndoW. t\qi Bciard fc2/tBoird loionq by 6hiqh An Anti-Sparrow Food-Shelf Mr. W. W. Grant of Summit, N. J.,sends us the accompanying plan for a win-dow food-shelf, to which, he writes, suchcomparatively wild birds as Tanagers, Flick-ers and others come, but which the EnglishSparrow will not, after one trial, visit. Aboard is hinged to the window-sill, and fromthe far end (see cut) a string is run to thetop of the window, with a light spring be-tween. When a bird alights on the plat-form, the latter will swing up and down,the amount of swing depending on the birds and the weight of the spring, to which thefrom its stem. The Kingbird frequently string is attached. (30) iloofe jBtetos ant) 3^etotetD0 The Birds of North and Middle Amer-ica. By Robert Ridgway. Part No. 50, U S. Nat. Mus., Wash-ington, 1902. 8 vo. XX 4- 834 pages;xxii plates. We have already expressed our high ap-preciation of the first part of this greatwork, treating of the Finches, and canaccord to this se
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