. Bird-lore . tame and perched on our hands and hats.—Private Lawrence I. Grinnell,Troop D, Squadron A, N. G. N. Y., Mc-AUen, Tex. A Stone Bird-Bath The accompanying photograph showsa bird-bath made by chiseling in a large Notes from Field and Study 145 stone a cavity which will hold twentyquarts of water. We put a squar esheetof slate, with rounded corners or supports,which brought it to within two inches ofthe surface of the water, and it has been The Tenant of a Back-Yard Brush-Heap I inclose a photograph of BrownThrashers taken in a pile of brush in myback yard here in Lennox, where they.
. Bird-lore . tame and perched on our hands and hats.—Private Lawrence I. Grinnell,Troop D, Squadron A, N. G. N. Y., Mc-AUen, Tex. A Stone Bird-Bath The accompanying photograph showsa bird-bath made by chiseling in a large Notes from Field and Study 145 stone a cavity which will hold twentyquarts of water. We put a squar esheetof slate, with rounded corners or supports,which brought it to within two inches ofthe surface of the water, and it has been The Tenant of a Back-Yard Brush-Heap I inclose a photograph of BrownThrashers taken in a pile of brush in myback yard here in Lennox, where they. A STONE BIRD-BATHPhotographed by Margaret S. Hitchcock much used by both old and young birdsof many different species. A young Robinwas splashing the water in all directionswhen the accompanying photograph wasmade.—Margaret S. Hitchcock, Mor-rhtoivn, N. J. have bred for four years, and are backnow preparing another nest. I presumethat they are the same pair, but of coursecannot say positively. They are quitetame, and I have on several occasionsplaced my hand on the back of the fe- 146 Bird-Lore male while she was sitting on the nest ofeggs. When the young are born they arejust like sitting hens, s cratching and pick-ing my hand till the blood comes when creasing in numbers until last year aboutsixty-five Martins left my houses duringthe latter part of August. T would havedone far better last year but for the ex-
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