■(i'> Till': W'li.sox r>L-i.ij:Ti\ — No. ')!). 



abaiuUiiicd structures. I'-endire sa}S in liis "Lite Histories of 

 North American IJirds" that, "occasional]}- they make use of 

 an old crow's nest, or one abandoned by same other hawk" 

 (p. 'i4A). This one. as is usually the case, was rather a bulky 

 affair, scmewhat loosely put toi^ether. and composed of oak 

 twigs, and lined with strips of pine bark, but then ther? were 

 some other unlooked-for materials si)arinj;'ly mixed u]) in it, 

 not used, as a rule, by this hawk, that more closely resembled 

 a crow's work of the ye u" pr^^vious. Tlvj hawks may have 

 pulled out the eld lining, however, and made other additions 

 to suit themselves. 



OUR lURD-BATH. 



CY CARKFl-: KLAGIJiR SCIIANTZ. 



In June last year (liXXi) we laid cement walks, and frr ui 



the "remain'ders" Mr. S built a bird-bath in the corner of 



our yard. 



He marked out a circle about three feet in diameter. He 

 then excavated to a depth of twenty inches, ard filled the space 

 within eig'ht inches of the top with cinders, packing the cinders 

 well ; en top of thccinders he put a mixture of gravel and 

 cement and then finished with a mixture of sand and cement, 

 making the center of the bath about six inches below the sod 

 and sloping from the center to tlK? rim of the bath, which was 

 left a little lower than the sod. Tlie bath is located within four 

 feet of a high v.dre fence in the northeast corner of the yard. 

 It v/as finished too late for the spring migration, but how the 

 birds enjoyed it through the rest of the summeY and uiUil it 

 irozz c.ver in the fall ! We fill the bath with water from the 

 garden hose and sweep it out with a brconi to keep it fresh 

 and clean. 



You would be surprised at the number of times it needed 

 cleaning and re-filling on certain warm davs. We are in a 



