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my fingers, and then I put up the window and hold my hand out to 

 him. One, two, three, four, into my hand they come, then fly off to 

 hide a walnut or a crumb, and back again after more. I have found 

 they have the five calls, — "Pewee! pewee!" to call together; a fretful 

 call when hunting for food, seeing a cat, or mad at each other, and 

 their happy call, "Chickadee-dee!" and their soft murmuring song. 



They are so tame that if one of them sees a bit he thinks he would 

 like better than that in my hand, he will get in the box and crawl under 

 my hand to get it. I had one purple finch come during the first snow 

 storm. 



Mrs. Downy Woodpecker is as nice and dainty as she can be, 

 standing close by the window while I put my face to the glass and talk 

 to her, while she looks up and winks and blinks like a dove. She is 

 within a foot of the glass, I raise the window and she stays still and 

 watches me, but Mr. Downy raises his red crest in anger when he sees 

 her there, and if he gets near, she runs backward down the stick on 

 which suet is tied and gets away from him in a hurry. 



One would be surprised at the amount of stuff these little birds eat. 

 One quart of hazel-nuts, nearly three quarts of walnuts, one quart of 

 peanuts, crackers, bread and suet, and still they are hungry. 



I have three cats, which sleep in the same room with my four 

 canaries, and know better than to even look at them. Now I have 

 taught them that window-birds also, birds in the yard, on the ground, 

 (Blue Jays and even English Sparrows,) are not to be caught either. 



M. L. S. Haddam, Conn. 



DIAMOND PUZZLE. 



The letters from A to C and from D to B spell the name of a 

 handsome Woodpecker. 



D 



A 1 2 



