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sparrow and junco. With these may come occasionally 

 a song sparrow, fox sparrow, or white- throated sparrow. 

 Well to the north, the common crossbill, white- winged 

 crossbill, redpoll, pine grosbeak, evening grosbeak, Canada 

 jay, and snow bunting have been fed. Ernest Harold 

 Baynes, at Meriden, New Hampshire, has had most of these. 

 Farther south, the cardinal, mockingbird, and tufted tit- 

 mouse are more readily attracted. Just as I write this, 

 Miss Frances H. Butler, of Woodstock, Connecticut, re- 

 ports to me, under date of December 18, a mockingbird 

 which has stayed by the house for some days and eats ber- 

 ries from the woodbine, so one is always liable to get rarities. 



In the category of the more unusual visitors to artificial 

 feeding are the flicker and myrtle warbler, and Trafton 

 in his book mentions the following casual records of species 

 accepting artificial feeding: screech owl, white-crowned 

 sparrow, rose-breasted grosbeak, pine siskin, red-bellied 

 woodpecker, goldfinch, gold-crowned kinglet, horned lark, 

 Lapland longspur, hermit thrush, winter wren, and also, 

 from farther West, the yellow-headed blackbird, Clark's 

 crow, Oregon jay, and gray-crowned rosy finch. In woods 

 or fields we may also feed the quail, ruffed grouse, and 

 pheasant, and on the edge of ice on ponds or streams, in 

 severe cold snaps, various wild ducks. 



Kinds of Food. For species which prefer animal food 

 suet is the best and most attractive article that has been 

 found. It does not freeze too hard and is easily taken by 

 birds. The woodpeckers are probably the only ones that 

 eat suet or meat exclusively. Nuthatches and titmice are 

 practically omnivorous, as are most of the others. Birds of 

 the sparrow and finch tribe are more fond of seeds, but they 

 also eat suet to some extent, and a variety of other sub- 

 stances. Within certain broad lines it is not necessary to 



