White- winged crossbills feeding in the snow. As food that is thrown out to the birds in winter 

 readily sinks into the snow and is thus lost to the birds, at Meriden the plan is followed of tramp- 

 ling down the snow to form a feeding-ground on which the seed is scattered. This method has been 

 found to be more practicable than shoveling away the snow. 



A picturesque bird bath in Meriden, New Hampshire. As many as eighteen diflferent kinds of 

 birds have been observed bathing at such a bird bath 

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