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sash, easy of access to the hungry birds, and easy of observation to inquisitive 

 humans; while the other, about 8 inches in diameter, should be about 8 or 

 ID inches lower, and useful as a preliminary lure to the shyer visitors. 



On my own place, which has a great many evergreen trees, I have painted 

 the roof and sash of the food-house a dark green, to match the green of the 

 surrounding pines. Mr. Baynes has used other colors; but I doubt if it makes 

 very much difference to the birds what the color is, provided it is inconspicuous. 

 The question of color may be eliminated, and a very pleasing effect achieved, 

 by making the food-house entirely rustic; shelter as well as post, covering 

 the roof with bark, and making the battens and sashes of strips of white 

 cedar or spruce with the bark on. 



Gull Pensioners 



By E. L. MOSELEY 



With photographs by E. Niebergall 



DURING March, 191 2, several hundred Herring Gulls could be seen 

 at one time resting upon the ice of Sandusky Bay. Some always 

 remain in this vicinity through the winter. When the ice becomes 

 thick enough for men to fish through it, the Gulls are given the small fish and 

 the water-dogs (salamanders). Some of the fishermen bring back to the ice 



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with them the heads of fish they have dressed at home and other scraps for 

 the Gulls. But the last week of February, this year, Mr. Louis Beverick, 

 foreman of the Booth Fish Company, began thawing fish from their freezers 

 and feeding them to the Gulls. The first day, only twenty or twenty-five 

 birds came to the dock, but each day the niunber increased, so that by the 



