ORNITHOLOGY 



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Photographing Young Birds. 



The most attractive age of a young 

 bird is usually the tirst week or so after 

 it has left the nest, — when it is lainich- 



Flickers and goldfinches, in Riverside 

 Drive between ii6th Street and Grant's 

 Tomb, late in November. 



YOUNG CATRIRn JUST AFTER LEAVNG NEST. 



Photograph by Mr. Charles I. Reid, Millersburg; 



Pennsylvania. 



ing forth into the world to try its own 

 resources. It is shy, yet it seems to 

 know no fear : its poses are graceful 

 combining with the freshness and vigor 

 of youth some of the dignity and repose 

 of the adult. This period might be said 

 to be the "sweet sixteen" of bird life, 

 and it seems to contain all the attrac- 

 tive qualities of the bird with none of 

 the objectionable ones, making its sub- 

 ject as lovable as an opening flower. 



Bird Notes for New York City, 



BY MISS ELIZABETH VAX HOEVEXBERG, 

 FISH KILL, XEW YORK. 



A Blackburnian warbler was observed 

 May ly, 1914, on Lenox Avenue at 

 129th Street, in a tree near the curb in 

 front of a florist's greenhouses. 



Kinglets and redstarts have been 

 seen among the trees and shrubs of the 

 Upper Campus, Columbia University, 

 New York City. 



Juncos, feeding among the chickens 

 on a "Harlam Squatter's" claim, on 

 Morningside Drive, at 121st Street, be- 

 fore the great apartment houses, now 

 there, were built. 



Bird Photography for Women. 



That bird-photography is not only 

 possible for women to enjoy, but that 

 it may be made one of the most fasci- 

 nating and healthful of out-door studies 

 is shown in an interesting article tinder 

 the above title, published in the May- 

 June number of "Bird Lore." The 

 author is Miss E. L. Turner, F. Z. S. 

 of Cambridge, England. 



A number of women in our own 

 country have also done most admirable 

 work along similar lines, and such re- 

 sults should be encouraging to others 

 who are taking up this useful pastime. 



Remarkable Devotion of a Robin. 



BY RE\'. MAXLEY B. TOWXSEXD. X.ASHU.A, 

 XEW HAMPSHIRE. 



A number of years ago, when living 

 in Southbridge, Mass., this remarkable 

 robin incident came to my notice. A 

 friend, a conductor on the railroad that 

 runs from Thompsonville, Conn., to 

 Southbridge, told me the story. 



One morning at Thompsonville a 

 passenger car that had been standing 

 idle on a siding for several weeks was 

 attached to the train. Several miles 

 otit of the place the attention of some 

 passengers standing on the rear plat- 

 form was attracted by the peculiar 

 actions of a robin that seemed to be 

 persistently following the train. My 

 friend, the condtictor. was informed 

 rnd a close watch kept upon the bird. 

 Yes. it was certainly following the 

 train, but for what purpose? The an- 

 swer soon came, for when the train 

 made its first stop the robin flew 

 directly to the car and disappeared be- 

 neath the trucks. An investigation 

 revealed a nest containing four newly- 

 batched voung, on whom the mother 

 was sitting close. Bright-eyed and 

 fearful, but bravely, she eyed the faces 

 thrust close to her and her treasures. 

 Wben the train started she flew out, 

 but followed faithfully the entire run, 

 brooding and warming her bal)ies 

 whenever the train stopped and af- 

 forded her the opportunit}'. Thus she 

 kept them alive and warm until ."^outh- 

 bridtre was reached. The conductor at 



