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and will be entirely dependent upon the food 

 placed in their gaping mouths. Young birds, 

 apparently grown and able to pick up their own 

 nourishment, may not yet have learned to do it. 

 If the birds are only fledglings with wide-open 

 mouths, they must be fed every hour in day- 

 light, with suitable food, and given water occa- 

 sionally. 



What joy-giving rewards will come from such 

 a ministry to fledglings and injured birds. Dr. 

 Hodge bears witness. In these pages, he gener- 

 ously furnishes two pictures of " Bob," a young 

 robin, that, until it left for its Southern winter 

 home, would come at call and alight upon the hand 

 of the friends whom it had learned to know. 

 In one of the pictures, it is standing on the hand 

 of Dr. Hodge's son, who, when he was younger, 

 held the Waxwing (before described) ; in the 

 other, it has the company of a fledgling upon the 

 hand of the young woman who kindly permits 

 the use of the picture. " Bob " started South 

 in the autumn of 1901, with a ring upon one of 

 his legs, put there by Dr. Hodge, to identify 

 him upon his return, which is certain to take 

 place unless accident should prevent. 



