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A BI-MONTHLY MAGAZINE 

 DEVOTED TO THE STUDY AND PROTECTION OF BIRDS 



Official Organ of the Audubon Societies 



Vol. VII 



September — October, 1905 



No. 5 



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A BOB -WHITE LUNCH PARTY 

 Photographed by John Tresilian 



Our Avian Creditors 



By ERNEST HAROLD BAYNES. Meriden, N. H. 



IT is not an act of charity, this feeding of the birds at a season when 

 even their great courage and energy often go unrewarded. Call it an 

 act of friendship, and I will not dispute it ; but, after all, it is a duty — the 

 partial payment of a debt, for the hundred joys which birds have added to 

 our lives. But, though they were not our creditors, the fact that we call 

 ourselves ' bird -lovers ' should be sufficient to insure our feeding them in 

 winter; for it is not conceivable that we would allow those we love to run 

 the risk of starving to death, if by any reasonable effort we could prevent 

 it. In spite of all we may do, many birds will die this coming winter; but 



