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showing little fear. So easy 

 are these httle creatures to 

 tame that havino; been fed 

 frequently in several places, — 

 particularly in and about Port- 

 land, Oregon, — after a day 

 or two they have eaten out 

 of the hand. 



Only one person, however, 

 so far as known, has succeeded 

 in winning their confidence 

 sufficiently to bring them to 

 alight upon the person. A 

 winsome lady of Oregon City, 

 Oregon, has, during the peri- 

 ods of their last two visits, 

 induced such familiarity that 

 a number of them would rest 

 upon her arms, hands and lap. 

 The three pictures in this issue 

 of Bird-Lore indicate what was the habit of these birds in the spring of 

 1899. In the spring of 1901 some of the same birds returned to their 

 friend, their identity being established by a blind eye in one and a mis- 

 shapen leg in another. Such general 



friendliness toward human beings on ' "~ "'"^ j 



the part of this particular species of ( 



bird is no doubt due to the fact that 

 it lives, for the most part, so far 

 from human habitations, and does not 

 know our stone - throwing and shot- 

 gun attitude toward the angels of 

 beauty and song which our birds are 

 to the world. 



The Western Evening Grosbeak 

 nests far off in the solitudes of the 

 Coast Range and Cascade Mountains 

 in these Pacific states, and visits the 

 confines of human society for only a 

 short time once in two years. Only 

 two or three nests of the species have 

 ever been found, although, within a 

 year, Mr. A. W. Anthony, of orni- 

 thological fame, and three or four 



