How to Attract the Birds 



What relentless impulse drives the little travelers 

 back and forth, north and south, here to-day, away 

 to-morrow? 



CONSTANT FRIENDS ARE FEW 



Wherever you live you will find that some of the 

 birds about you are more or less in evidence the 

 year round. If you walk far enough you are likely 

 to see a crow or a sparrow, for example, any month 



"Crows, like the poor, are always with us" 



in the twelve. But other birds simply pass regularly 

 through your locality on their spring and fall migra- 

 tions, barely affording a glimpse of their feathers as 

 they hurry by. With such disdain are we treated by 

 the majority, but not all, of the warbler tribe, 

 charmingly-colored, restless, dainty little sprites 

 which flit among the spring blossoms for a day or 



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