120 METHODS OF ATTRACTING BIRDS 



it where it will be somewhat shaded to prevent 

 the water from getting too warm. 



Dr, Hodge's Fountain, — Dr. Hodge contrib- 

 utes the following description of his very suc- 

 cessful and artistic fountain at Worcester. The 

 fountain in the school-yard shown in the illustra- 

 tion is of the same type. 



" The bird-fountain is the one great and per- 

 ennial source of pleasure to ourselves and the 

 birds. It draws all the birds within a radius of sev- 

 eral blocks to our garden. Sometimes there will 

 be 30 or 40 of several different species about the 

 fountain, bathing or drinking or awaiting their 

 turns. I have photographs which caught 8 within 

 range of the focus at the same snap. If there was 

 room for but one thing in my yard, it would have 

 to be a bird-fountain. My fountain is constructed 

 of the roughest rocks obtainable, laid up in Port- 

 land cement so as to give deep chinks and holes 

 wherever possible for the mosses, lichens, liver- 

 worts, sundews, ferns, and all manner of wild flow- 

 ers on and planted around it ; that is, a columnar 

 heap of weathered rocks, held firmly by cement, 

 which either does not show, or is blackened by 

 mixing with lampblack so as to be inconspicuous. 

 It has a bowl, about six inches in diameter and 

 an inch deep, into which the water leaps in a purl- 



