ENCOURAGING THE PRESEXCi: OF RIRDS. 



noi) 



A supply uf water in shallow receptacles set flush with the 

 turf will fully repay all it. costs in entertainini,^ views of avian 

 lavatory operations. Robins love a shower-bath from spray- 



MK. CHAPMAN S UIKDS-BATH. 



ing fountains on hot summer afternoons, and where lawns are 

 kept close-cropped and weU watered, robins are always on 

 hand for the earthworms that come to the moist surface. We 



DIAGRAM OF BIRDS-BATH. 



have knoAvn robins to come a long distance to get food for 

 their young on a well-w^atered lawn. Mr. Frank M. Chapman 

 has described ^ an excellent bird's-bath in use on his grounds, 



* Bird Lore, vol. iii. p. 74. 



