. Bird-lore . perience which will surprise those peoplewho would think it a very good joke indeed to send you out with asalt-cellar after birds. I have recently had an experience of this happened in the heart of a great city, surely the last place in theworld where one would expect to find any birds, except House Spar-rows. But Central Park, New York City, the place I refer to, con-tains several retired nooks where birds are often abundant. A place 56 Bird-Lore known as the Ramble is a particularly good one for birds, and dur-ing the past winter, when it was not too cold, I have often
. Bird-lore . perience which will surprise those peoplewho would think it a very good joke indeed to send you out with asalt-cellar after birds. I have recently had an experience of this happened in the heart of a great city, surely the last place in theworld where one would expect to find any birds, except House Spar-rows. But Central Park, New York City, the place I refer to, con-tains several retired nooks where birds are often abundant. A place 56 Bird-Lore known as the Ramble is a particularly good one for birds, and dur-ing the past winter, when it was not too cold, I have often gone frommy study in the nearby Museum of Natural History to eat my luncheonwith the birds in the Ramble. Many other bird-lovers have alsovisited the Park to study and feed the birds, and, as always happenswhen birds learn that they will not be harmed, they have becomeremarkably tame. This is especially true of the Chickadees, who, under any circum-stances, seem to have less fear of man than most birds. When I. A BIRD IN THE HANDPhotographed from nature, by F. M. Chapman. entered the Ramble they soon responded to an imitation of theirplaintive call of two high, clearly whistled notes. And in a short timewe became such good friends that I had only to hold out my handwith a nut in it to have one of them at once perch on a finger, lookat me for a moment with an inquiring expression in his bright littleeyes, then take the nut and Hy off to a neighboring limb, where,holding it beneath his toes, he would hammer away at it with hisbill, Blue Jay fashion. One day I induced one of them to pose before my camera, and,as a result, I now have the pleasure of presenting you with hisportrait, as an actual proof that nuts are much more effective thansalt, in catching birds. So, after this, we wont go out with salt-cellars, but with a supply of food : nor should we forget to takea pocketful of patience, which. Mrs. Wright says, is the salt ofthe bird-catching legend. The February Walk Contest W
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