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even when it was brought up near enough to touch 

 the window. A shelf had meanwhile been fastened 

 to the window, and henceforth most of the food 

 was placed on this, although some food was kept 

 on the ground and on a distant shelf for those 

 birds which would not come to the window. By 

 Christmas-time the chickadees had become so 

 tame as to feed from the hand. On one corner of 

 the window shelf was fastened an apple-tree limb 

 to which suet was nailed. To this the tree-climb- 

 ing birds came at once. The sides of the moving 

 counter were covered with bark and several parti- 

 tions were made of bark. This helped give it a 

 natural appearance and also furnished a better 

 means of support to which the tree-climbing 

 birds could cling. The following winter a roof 

 was placed over the trough, which partially pre- 

 vented the food from being covered over by snow 

 during storms. 



Advantages of the Moving Counter. — A 

 moving lunch-counter has several advantages. It 

 is easy to pull in the counter and replace the food, 

 especially during and just after a storm ; it fur- 

 nishes an opportunity of gradually accustoming 

 the birds to the nearness of buildings and people, 

 till they may feed at the window, where their 

 habits may be studied at close range. It furnishes 



