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food sticks so placed. The hinged shelf for feeding birds at the 

 window, supported at its outer edge by a light steel or brass 

 wire rolled into the shape of 

 a spring in the center, is said | 



to be sparrow-proof. (See 

 Fig. 24.) This shelf is ap- 

 parently unstable and shakes 

 when the birds alight on it. 

 The sparrows appear to fear 

 the motion, while native 

 birds do not. Mr. Wm. E. 

 Saunders of London, On- 

 tario, pours melted tallow^ 

 or fat mixed with sunflower 

 seeds upon a flat board with 

 a perch to w'hich the native 

 birds can cling, and then 

 when the mixture has hard- 

 ened fastens up the board in an inverted position. (Fig. 

 25.) 



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Board io"lonq by 6'hiqK 



Fig. 24. — Diagram of food shelf designed 

 to repel the English sparrow. (Courtesy 

 of "Bird-Lore.") 



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Fig. 25. — Feeding device to checkmate English sparrows. 

 (Invented by Mr. Wm. E. Saunders.) 



INIethods of attracting Certain Desirable or BEAUTirrL 



Birds. 



Wild Fold. 

 If wild fowl are to be attracted there must be a pool, lake, 

 stream or river, or an arm of the sea. A small pond made by 

 damming a brook will suffice. Here a few call ducks, or mal- 

 lards, should be kept to decoy the wild birds. The pond may 

 be surrounded with a fine-meshed wire fence, turned flat on the 

 ground outside for at least 6 inches, to keep out natural ene- 

 mies, and grain may be thrown into a foot or two of water 

 where ducks or geese will readily find it and where land birds 

 cannot get at it. It is important to use fine wire netting and 

 cement at inlet and outlet so that large fish, turtles or minks 



