How to Attract the Birds 



tussock of grass or in a floating mass of leaves and 

 muck. Since baby ducks can swim long before 

 they can fly, this strong-minded little mother will- 



The barn swallow hangs its clay bracket against the rafter 



ingly carries hers to the lake in her bill, much as a 

 cat carries her kittens, rather than risk the loss of 

 her eggs on the ground from the depredations of 

 water rats. 



TRADES REPRESENTED. 



The tailor bird, one of the warbler tribe living 

 in the East Indies, which sews leaves together to 

 form a cradle, cannot be named to swell the list of 

 trades represented in our birds' architecture ; but 

 we have many expert weavers, carpenters, felters, 

 masons, moulders, decorators and a few professional 

 hum-bugs. The barn swallow, manufacturing bricks 

 without straw, hangs its clay bracket against the 



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