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A " Weathercock" Food House* . . .140 

 A Window Box in the Author's Study . . 148 



From a photograph by Louise Birt Baynes 



An Audubon Food House in Winter* . .154 



An "Automatic" Food House Holds a Bushel 



of Seed* 154 



Barred Owl, Usually a Beneficial Bird* . 160 



A Decorative Bird Bath* . . . .168 



Young Baltimore Oriole before the Bath* . 178 



After the Bath * 178 



Song Sparrows Enjoying a Bath* . . .190 



Bird Bath in the Author's Garden. . . 190 



From a photograph by Louise Birt Baynes 



Chickadee Feeding under a Berlepsch "Food 



Bell"* ....... 202 



Chickadee at a Berlepsch Nest Box* . . 202 



A Bird Bath Memorial to Edward Everett 



Hale* 212 



A Bird Bath in Newton Centre, Mass. . . 226 



From a photograph by Man* 



Bronze Bird Bath Commemorating the "Bird 



Masque" 230 



Designed by Mrs. Louis Saint-Gaudens 



Ducks Dying of Starvation on Long Island . 240 



From a photograph by Wilbur Smith 



A Swan that was Carried over the Falls . 240 



From a photograph by James Savage 



