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stances would not be attractive to them. The 

 various records to which the author has had ac- 

 cess indicate that the same species, in different 

 localities, may prefer different kinds of food. Fol* 

 lowing are some of the preferences shown by the 

 birds as reported by different observers : 



" The chickadee preferred the raw pork rinds 

 to the suet. However, nothing seems to tempt the 

 appetite of these birds like the seeds of the sun- 

 flower." A C.Dike. 



" The white-breasted nuthatch ate everything 

 from cracked corn to suet, but seemed particularly 

 fond of walnut meats." Edwin C. Brown. 



11 Hungry birds will eat many things that do not 

 belong strictly to bird-diet ; but two articles I have 

 found will suffice for all species, suet in good-sized 

 lumps, that will not be torn to shreds too soon for 

 the woodpeckers and all other tree-trunk-climb- 

 ing birds, and any one of the various dog-biscuits, 

 broken into pieces of various sizes, ranging from 

 that of a chestnut, which jays and nuthatches love 

 to pound up to suit their tastes, to crumbs that 

 tempt the junco, tree sparrow, purple finch, snow- 

 flake, and even the robins and bluebirds ; and the 

 chickadee will take both meat and bread." 

 Mabel Osgood Wright. 



