. Bird lore . g food, a reason why we find the firstSong Sparrows in the alders. This is the time that the tree-trunk birds aremaking their best records—the Downy and Hairy Woodpecker and the Nut-hatches—yet it is the time that the casual and theoretical bird-lover and pro-tectionist sees the least to record in the great outdoors. Why is it? Because somany things born of impulse and the fad-following spirit, instead of true interest,do not survive their first real winter test, and never a one of these reads evena single chapter in The Birds Book of Snow. They build some impossiblebird-houses v
. Bird lore . g food, a reason why we find the firstSong Sparrows in the alders. This is the time that the tree-trunk birds aremaking their best records—the Downy and Hairy Woodpecker and the Nut-hatches—yet it is the time that the casual and theoretical bird-lover and pro-tectionist sees the least to record in the great outdoors. Why is it? Because somany things born of impulse and the fad-following spirit, instead of true interest,do not survive their first real winter test, and never a one of these reads evena single chapter in The Birds Book of Snow. They build some impossiblebird-houses very late in the spring and place them as near together as flatsin a tenement; they may throw out handfuls of crumbs and soon give upeven this feeding because, with improper food, they do not at once attracttame Chickadees, and then they declare there are no birds in our regionto be protected, simply because they do not feel the responsibility thatgoes with success in attracting and loving anything YOUNG MOURNING DOVES, FULLY FEATHERED AND CAPABLE OF QUICK, STRONG FLIGHT, BUT STILL TOO INEXPERIENCED TO FEAR THE PHOTOGRAPHER Photographed by Dr. R. W. Homan, Webster City, Iowa Notes from a Traveler in the TropicsII. CUBA TO PANAMA By FRANK M. CHAPMAN IVith illustrations by Louis Agassiz Fuertes TRAVELERS nowadays soon learn to regard steamship announcementsas mere scraps of paper which are not to be taken seriously. I was notsurprised, therefore, to learn that sailings on the line by which we hadexpected to reach Cristobal, from Cuba, were cancelled, and correspondinglypleased when a steamer bound for the desired port arrived from Spain, andon her we left Havana on the evening of October 26. With steam-coal at $28per ton, time is cheaper than fuel, so we jogged along at about three-fourthsspeed, over a sea so smooth that the entire voyage of four and a half daysmight have been made in a canoe. Our route ran around the western end of Cuba and thence down the Car-ibbea
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