. Bird lore . uts and suet.—SarahWaldren Weaver, Clynmalira, Glencoe, Baltimore, Md. [The writer of this interesting experiment in attracting birds about the home is alittle girl of the age of eleven years. She writes: I love birds and have a bird-clubto protect the birds. My clubs name is the Protectors of Feathered Friends. We havea meeting once a month to study the birds. I hope to be a naturalist when I grow again is the spirit of the true Nature-lover.—A. H. W.] AN ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF A PETER PAN BIRD STAND The School Department wishes to acknowledge the gift of a simple butvery use
. Bird lore . uts and suet.—SarahWaldren Weaver, Clynmalira, Glencoe, Baltimore, Md. [The writer of this interesting experiment in attracting birds about the home is alittle girl of the age of eleven years. She writes: I love birds and have a bird-clubto protect the birds. My clubs name is the Protectors of Feathered Friends. We havea meeting once a month to study the birds. I hope to be a naturalist when I grow again is the spirit of the true Nature-lover.—A. H. W.] AN ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF A PETER PAN BIRD STAND The School Department wishes to acknowledge the gift of a simple butvery useful device for feeding or giving water to birds. To a Bessemer steelrod is attached a cup which is securely riveted to the rod, the entire devicebeing painted waterproof green. The essential features of this stand are theconvenience with which it may be moved from place to place, the absence ofany comphcated mechanism and its durability. For further particulars, sendto C. M. Perry, Ridgefield, SNOWBOUND BIRD-HOUSESPhotographed by H. Findlay THE SHOVELLER By T. GILBERT PEARSON Cfje Ji^ational Hsgociation of Hububon Societies! EDUCATIONAL LEAFLET NO. 84 The most characteristic feature of the Shoveller is its great bill, whichmeasures about two and a half inches long and nearly one and a quarterinches in width. Spoonbill is the name by which this duck is known to manygunners; other names are Swabble-bill, Shovel-bill, and Cow-frog. Despiteits large bill, which seems entirely out of all proportion to the size of the bird,the male Shoveller is a particularly beautiful Duck, and because of its strik-ing green head and reddish belly it is sometimes mistaken for a male Mal-lard. The female, although she has an equally large bill, is not adorned withthe bright plumage of her mate—in fact it is a common characteristic amongwater-fowl that the female wears a more somber plumage than does the drake. Throughout the eastern and central United States Shovellers are rarelys
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