Reports of State Societies and Bird Clubs 453 



through the enormous window, watching, in fair or cloudy weather, the other 

 guests without, who bathe, feed, make love — or scrap, and who seem to enjoy 

 themselves quite as much as we. 



For the first time since our Club was organized, Chickadees visited Wyncote, 

 and many of our members have been thrilled by having them feed from their 

 hands. A food-tray at a window attracted them constantly. It is a simple 

 matter to extend the hand, holding peanuts, through the partly raised window, 

 and the birds will show their trusting nature by alighting upon it. — Esther 

 Heacock, Secretary. 



Wellesley (Mass.) College Bird Club. — Because of the war's demands on 

 time, energy, and money, and later of reconstruction, no new work was started 

 by the Wellesley College Bird Club, during the past year. The regular activities 

 were carried on as usual. However, seventy nesting-boxes were kept clean and 

 in order and fifteen feeding-stations maintained. The percentages of occupan- 

 cies of nesting-boxes during the past three years have been, 50, 27, and 58.5. 

 per cent. The high percentage of the first year was due in part to English 

 Sparrows. In the past year we have had an increase in the number of Blue- 

 birds, Swallows, and Wrens, and a decrease in Chickadees, due perhaps to the 

 large number of Wrens. — (Miss) Helen Humphrey, Secretary. 



