256 Birds of Oi^egoji and Washington 



This confidence was born of the experience of 

 the birds with this gentle woman. Any one, by 

 putting food down in a certain place, in small 

 quantities at a time, accompanying the act with 

 some soft and musical whistle, or low, soft, win- 

 ning call, will soon be associated, in the mind of 

 the bird, with the gift ; and if he stands quietly 

 and from time to time nearer to the birds, he 

 will, ere long, have them at his feet and perhaps 

 eating out of his hand. 



The story of a young Cedar Waxwing in Wor- 

 cester, Mass., will give a hint as to what may 

 be done in all our homes. Overloaded with 

 cherries, he was taken into a bird-lover's home 

 to be kept from the cats till he recovered from 

 his cherry-spree. Gentle treatment made the 

 bird a member of the family in a few hours, not 

 in a cage, but free to go and come. In two 

 pictures which I have of him, he is sitting upon 

 a child's hand with as perfect confidence as that 

 with which the child would sit upon its mother's 

 lap. One of these pictures I am enabled to give 

 the readers of this book, through the kindness 

 of Dr. C. F. Hodge, of Clark University. If the 

 fledglings of all sorts, that drop to the ground 



