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Bird - Lore 



ELIZABETH DRUMMOND 



Miss Elizabeth Urummond, who died 

 at Lake Forest, Illinois, on October 3,1912, 

 was one to whom the wild birds brought 

 much pleasure during the long years of pain 

 and suffering with which her life was 

 clouded. Her sister. Miss Mary Drum- 

 mond, writes: 



"From the windows of her room in Lake 

 Forest she looked down upon a little thicket 

 of shrubs planted chiefly for the birds. 

 There, too, was the water for their com- 

 fort, and near one of her windows always 



lay her o])era-glass. Many an hour of her 

 days of weakness and pain was spent in 

 watching the birds, and she and my other 

 sister — also an invalid — would telephone 

 each other of the coming and going of their 

 bird-friends." 



Although Miss Drummond was de- 

 prived of the joy of doing much for the 

 birds while she lived, she provided in her 

 will for extending the work for their pro- 

 tection by leaving the generous sum of 

 $^,000 to the National .Association. 



