. Bird-lore . wild ways of his fellows. So, onemorning, I put him in the canary-cage and drove several miles to a mountainstream. Here elderberries grew thickly and the air was full of insects. Iwatched my little friend, of whom I had grown very fond. He soon becameoblivious of me and began to feast on the berries. Had I left him about theyard, he would probably have shared the pitiful fate of the little Grosbeak.—Mary Pierson Allen, Hackeltstown, N. J. [The Grosbeak referred to is the one described in Bird-Lore, Vol. XIII, No. 6, p. 318,under the title of Some Experiences with a Bird Nursery.
. Bird-lore . wild ways of his fellows. So, onemorning, I put him in the canary-cage and drove several miles to a mountainstream. Here elderberries grew thickly and the air was full of insects. Iwatched my little friend, of whom I had grown very fond. He soon becameoblivious of me and began to feast on the berries. Had I left him about theyard, he would probably have shared the pitiful fate of the little Grosbeak.—Mary Pierson Allen, Hackeltstown, N. J. [The Grosbeak referred to is the one described in Bird-Lore, Vol. XIII, No. 6, p. 318,under the title of Some Experiences with a Bird Nursery. The happier fate of Petesuggests the wisdom of training birds reared by hand for life in the open. However,there are many enemies besides cats, as well as many dangers which threaten the lifeof any bird, whether captive or free. To study more closely into all the conditionswhich make for the health and safety of birds, and particularly of immature birds, isthe problem of the human foster-parent.—A. H. THE YELLOW-HEADED BLACKBIRD By THOMAS S. ROBERTS ^^t /Rational Si&0omtion ot Siutuhon ^ocUtite EDUCATIONAL LEAFLET NO. 57 The Yellow-headed Blackbird is preeminently a native ofRange the Great Plains, and, although in some parts of its range it invades regions not strictly prairie, it belongs by right to thevast treeless plains of the interior and the sparsely wooded areas immediatelyadjoining on the east and west. Over all this region it ranges, breeding fromthe extreme northern part of Mexico in the south to southern British Columbia,the Saskatchewan and Manitoba in the north. East and west it occurs reg-ularly as a summer resident, from Wisconsin, Illinois, northwestern Indianaand western Louisiana to the valleys of the Pacific Coast States. It wintersthroughout the extreme southern portion of its United States range and onthe plateaus of Central Mexico. Farther east in the United States it is but arare wanderer. There is one invariable condition necessary to induce i
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