. Bird lore . rom the woods, and with healthy vigor hepulled away at the decayed portions andextracted the larvae, etc., that were hidingthere. One night I took him to see a friend, andwhen I let him climb up on to my neck inthe car, a man behind exclaimed, Say,theres a bug on your back! He was justas much at home in my friends house aselsewhere, and exhibited his characteristicflight, climbing up all the curtains, huntingfor food as usual. I kept him but three days; and partlybecause I had not the time to hunt insectfood, and partly because I thought he wouldbe happier free again, I opened th
. Bird lore . rom the woods, and with healthy vigor hepulled away at the decayed portions andextracted the larvae, etc., that were hidingthere. One night I took him to see a friend, andwhen I let him climb up on to my neck inthe car, a man behind exclaimed, Say,theres a bug on your back! He was justas much at home in my friends house aselsewhere, and exhibited his characteristicflight, climbing up all the curtains, huntingfor food as usual. I kept him but three days; and partlybecause I had not the time to hunt insectfood, and partly because I thought he wouldbe happier free again, I opened the vyindowand let him go. He flew immediately toa large pine on the lawn, where I soonlost sight of him.—Wm. L. Baily, Ard-more, Pa. (73) 74 Bird- Lore A Birds Bath There is no better way to attract birdsabout our homes during the summer thanto supply them with water for drinking andbathing. The accompanying photograph shows abath which evidently met with the approvalof most of the birds in the vicinity of my. A BIRDS BATH house in the summer and autumn of 1900,it being patronized even by Screech is made of bricks and cement and incross-section resembles the appended dia-gram: / Boards may be used to form partitions,which should be filled with earth. Theplants introduced were sagittaria, iris, yel-low pond lily, wild rice, duckweed andwater hyacinth. The pond is filled with a hose and re-plenished as evaporation requires. — FrankM. Chapman, Engleivood, N. J. Buried Treasure On February 10, 1901, I observed arather amusing incident. The snow wasnearly a foot deep here on that day and theweather had been quite cold for some was walking through a small piece ofwoods in search of birds, when I noticed acommotion near an embankment where thesnow had drifted to a considerable drawing near I found a large numberof Chickadees, White-breasted Nuthatchesand Downy Woodpeckers assembled, theformer most in evidence. All the birdsseemed much interested in something
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