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ness or ferocity. This applies to the lowest as well 

 the highest forms, or we might say from insects to 

 higher apes in- 

 clusive. Our 

 lite rature on 

 this subject — 

 which is both 

 interesting and 

 important — is, 

 as yet, not very 

 extensive. The 

 subject is de- 

 serving of far 

 more study and 

 close attention 

 than it has re- 

 ceived up to 

 the present 

 time. No one 

 of the verte- 

 brate g r o ups 

 furnish better 

 illustrative ex- 

 amples of all 

 this than do 

 birds. For 

 many years 

 past there has 

 been almost a 

 universal move- 

 ment on foot 

 to e n c o urage 

 the matter of 

 good fellow- 

 s h i p between 

 many species of 

 our small land 

 birds and our 

 own species. At 

 first only a 

 limited number 

 of people en- 

 tered the field 

 to bring this 

 r e 1 a t i onship 

 about where 

 possible, and it 

 was chiefly ac- 

 c o m p 1 i s h ed 

 through plac- 

 ing attractive 

 foods for them 

 in convenient 

 places out-of- 

 doors ; through 

 the establish- 

 ment of bird 



homes in the trees and elsewhere, and the feeding of 

 many birds in the wintertime at close quarters in the 



as open. At this writing this is a very common prac- 

 the tice all over the country, and it is truly remarkable to 



note the bene- 

 ficial and most 

 interesting re- 

 sults. 



Many ex- 

 plorers of new 

 lands have fre- 

 quently noted 

 how tame all 

 the birds were 

 that they came 

 across in places 

 previously en- 

 tirely unknown 

 to man. It was 

 as true of land 

 birds as of the 

 marine forms 

 or the so-called 

 water birds. 

 One traveler 

 was returning, 

 from a spring 

 with a small 

 camp pitcher in 

 his hand filled 

 with water, 

 when some 

 bird, about the 

 size of a robin, 

 came and lit on 

 the brim of the 

 vessel to get a 

 drink for it- 

 self. This was 

 on one of the 

 East Indian 

 Isles ; and if 

 memory fails 

 me not, the ex- 

 plorer was 

 Alfred Russel 

 Wallace. 



But the lit- 

 erature of ex- 

 ploration teems 

 with such ac- 

 counts, though, 

 unfortunately, 

 e X a m p les of 

 the kind are 

 becoming more 

 and more rare. 

 Through the 

 use of traps 

 and guns and persistent persecution of many kinds, 

 nearly all — indeed all the various species of birds in this 



Fig. 7 — The Sparrow Hawk is one of the handsomest of our American Hawks. 



