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Snoiv Bunting. 

 INIillet seeds and chaff attract the lovely snow bunting, but 

 oats and weed seeds are favorite foods. 



White-throated Sparrow. 

 This handsome fall and spring visitor rarely winters here, but 

 while here it is fond of crumbs and millet seed, especially that 

 of the Japanese millet. Dr. N. Chandler Foot recommends 

 "scratch-feed," sold by poultry supply houses. This bird 

 feeds mainly on the ground, and will not go to food shelters 

 on posts unless driven by extreme necessity. Mrs. N. C. 

 Squires finds this species very fond of turnip seed, as it grows 

 in the pod. 



White-crowned Sparrow. 



This striking bird is a rather uncommon visitant in spring 

 and fall. It has been known to come to feeding stations for 

 nuts, crumbs and seeds. 



Fo.x SparroiD. 

 In times of stress the handsome fox sparrow comes to the food 

 shelf for hayseed and Japanese millet, and two of them fed at 

 one of my windows all winter. 



Toichee. 

 The brush heap with surrounding shrubbery, and with chaff 

 and seeds thrown under it, should attract all native sparrows 

 and towhees. The towhees will take grain scattered on the 

 ground, also crumbs and hempseed. This bird winters here 

 very rarely, and must have thick shrubbery for cover. 



Rose-breasted Grosbeak. 

 This beautiful bird, a singer of pure songs, follows the Col- 

 orado potato beetle, which it destroys. It loves water and a 

 fertile potato patch, also gardens and the buds and blossoms 

 of apple, cherry and other trees. Sometimes it may be at- 

 tracted by corn or oats; berries, such as mulberries, juneber- 

 ries, elderberries and wild cherries, are a great attraction; rarely 

 it eats a little suet. Miss Harriet Abbott of Fryeburg, Maine, 

 notes that on the occasion of a snowstorm there on ^Nlay 11, 



