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house or in the garden, sometimes climbing the whole 

 length of her body and often eating his entire lunch from 

 her hand. This little friend brought his wife and five lit- 

 tle-ones to a tree near the veranda, about the middle of 

 June, but while he came freely as usual neither Mrs. 

 nuthatch or any of her interesting family could be per- 

 suaded to come near. Chickadees, nuthatches, goldfinches, 

 downy and hairy woodpeckers, tree sparrows and blue 

 jays were among the number of bird acquaintances that 

 partook of the dainties of the veranda lunch counter; the 

 first mentioned taking food from the hand. A flock of ten 

 red-winged crossbills were observed from April 30 to June 

 8. She attracted them by means of pieces of salt pork at- 

 tached to the limbs of trees. While feeding they would 

 give a whistling note. At intervals one would stop feed- 

 ing and give a song, a sweet little song, not powerful or 

 very loud but varied and exceedingly pleasing. The 

 writer concludes her paper thus: "Let me tell you that the 

 friendship and the companionship of these little comrades 

 has been not only a source of great pleasure and comfort 

 during these few years of enforced exile from home and 

 friends, but an education as well. Many a needed lesson in 

 patience have they taught me, many a lesson in affection- 

 ate consideration as well." 



Miss Drew's article is printed in full in the May-June 

 number of Bird Lore. 



REPORT OF THE NEW ENGLAND FEDERATION. 



MISS DELIA I. GRIFFIN. 



The New England Federation of Natural History 

 Societies which the Vermont Botanical and Bird Clubs 

 have joined, met at the Roger Williams Park Museum, 

 Providence, R. I., October 12 and 13, 1906. The Federa- 

 tion was one year old, and consisted of twenty-four socie- 

 ties, divided as follows : Fourteen from Massachusetts, 

 two each from Maine, Vermont, and Rhode Island, one 

 from New Hampshire, and three which belong to all New 

 England. Out of this number, nineteen societies were 

 officially represented at the Providence meeting. About 

 fifty members of the Federation were in attendance, and 

 some hundreds of visitors examined the exhibits during the 

 two days. 



These exhibits included specimens of rare flowering 

 plants, ferns, mosses and liverworts (many of them ar- 



