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flew, — all but one, and he flew into the glass 

 at the back. Then he lost his head, and began 

 fighting the glass, and I opened the front door, 

 walked across the lawn, and caught him. Spread- 

 ing out one of his wings, I went back into Mrs. 

 Baynes's room, and without a trace of a smile, 

 asked, "Will this do?" You can imagine her 

 astonishment better than I can describe it. She 

 made her notes on the marking of the wings, then 

 we put an aluminum band on the bird's leg, and 

 let him go. It was exactly a month before we saw 

 him feeding with other jays in the window box. 



The Audubon Food House 



Then Mr. Frederic H. Kennard, the landscape 

 architect, sent us a plan of a food house which 

 he had designed and found successful on his own 

 estate at Newton Centre, Massachusetts. It 

 was an adaptation of a device invented by Baron 

 Hans von Berlepsch, the great German bird 

 lover, of whose interesting experiments I shall 

 speak again later on. As may be seen in the 

 illustrations, it consists of two food trays, one 

 above another, the upper and larger being 

 protected from the snow and rain by a four- 

 sided "hopper" roof, and from the wind by an 

 "apron" of glass which falls from the roof, the 



