How to Attract the Birds 



city of the dead, Greenwood Cemetery, seemed to 

 be the most satisfactory asylum they could find. Pos- 

 sibly the little strangers wished to be personally con- 

 ducted daily by American angels to sing "at heaven's 

 gate" when "Phoebus 'gins arise," In 1853 more 

 skylarks were liberated in Greenwood, also wood- 

 larks, English blackbirds, and brown thrushes, the 



One of the first and most delightful European immigrants to arrive — 

 the skylark. (From a mounted specimen) 



little robin red-breast — a diminutive edition of our 

 robin — and another lot of goldfinches. Skylarks 

 imported by other enthusiastic lovers of this heav- 

 enly minstrel were then soaring and singing above 

 the fields around Wilmington, Delaware, and Wash- 

 ington, D. C, but none survived. So far as is 

 known, the bird has become naturalized only in 

 certain Long Island meadows, not many miles 



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