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good opportunities to catch mice, but the 

 fact that even they take to it naturally 

 would show that the Owl and the Hawk 

 must find most larger birds allies in their 

 work of keeping down the rodents' 

 numbers. — Joseph W. Lippincott, Beth- 

 ayres, Pa. 



A Maine Pelican 



This picture was taken by me, in 1899 

 I think, at Castine, Maine. The birds 

 had been brought North in the spring 

 from Florida, and released. It was a 



and crannies of an old barrel that stood 

 at our back door. 



Yes, it was Jenny Wren, her tail tilted 

 in true Wren fashion, which always makes 

 it easj^ to distinguish a Wren from other 

 small birds. 



It was plain to see that Jenny had de- 

 cided we would make desirable neighbors 

 and was looking for suitable apartments 

 nearby. 



I procured an old cigar box, cut an 

 opening in one end about the size of a 

 twenty-five cent piece, tacked a shingle 



MAINE PELICANS 

 Photographed by John B. May 



favorite sport to fish for pollock and 

 cunners at the steamer dock, and toss the 

 fish to the Pelicans. 



I am sorry that I do not know what 

 happened to the Pelicans when winter 

 came. — -John B. May, Waban, Mass. 



Our New Neighbors 



One day last spring, I noticed a tiny 

 brown bird carefully inspecting the cracks 



to one side, and nailed the shingle to the 

 kitchen wall just under the eaves and 

 about nine feet from the ground. A small 

 perch was placed near the opening, and 

 Jenny's house was complete. A week 

 perhaps elapsed when Elinor — the other 

 member of our family — called my atten- 

 tion to a wee little bird darting in and out 

 of the door-way with twigs. Sure enough, 

 our little Jenny and Jimmy Wren had 

 moved in, he gallantly carrying the largest 



