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Bird - Lore 



MRS. HARRIET MYERS AND THE CONVALESCENT 

 PHAINOPEPLA 



In the garden of her beautiful home in Los Angeles, Mrs. Harriet W. Myers, Secre- 

 tary of the California Audubon Society, erected a few years ago a comfortable and com- 

 modious "bird-hospital." Here, sick or injured birds are safely kept until they can be 

 restored to freedom. A photograph of this unique institution was reproduced in Bird- 

 Lore, Volume XV, page 73. Many birds are treated in the course of a year, and Mrs. 

 Myers believes that her experiments have demonstrated the perfect feasibility of such 

 an undertaking. The^bird shown is one of the Silky Flycatchers, allied to the Waxwings, 

 of our Mexican border. 



