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maintained a chain of seventy-five feeding stations around their town, so 

 that no intelligent bird could get either in or out w^ithout taking a meal, if 

 he wanted one. 



The school children of Canton, Mass., have also done notable work in 

 this field, and were greatly encouraged, last winter, by the offering of sundry 

 prizes at the end of the season, for the best essays on bird-feeding written 

 entirely from personal experience. Very appropriately, these prizes consisted 

 of bird books by Chapman and Torrey, respectively. 



Space will not permit of my giving directions for attracting and feeding 

 birds about private houses and gardens, and, besides, such directions will 

 doubtless be given elsewhere in this number by those who have had much 

 more experience than I have. 



The Winter Feeding of Birds 

 A Suggestion for Cooperation 



By MABEL OSGOOD WRIGHT. Fairfield, Conn. 



WHILE many individuals make a practice of feeding birds during the 

 season when hunger and cold silently join the ranks of their 

 enemies, any cooperative movement of community or Audubon 

 Society toward this end is unusual. About the villages and even remoter 

 farms, food is to be found scattered both by accident and design; but this 

 avails nothing to the roving flocks of the shyer birds that find themselves 

 snow-bound between settlements, in the regions 

 of deserted forest camps or shore cottages. Also 

 the usual supply of nuts, suet, cracked corn, or 

 dog-bread offered by the well-supplied "lunch 

 counter" of the hospitable, fails to reach the Rufied 

 Grouse or Quail coveys of wood -lot and stubble- 

 field. These two noble game-birds forage bravely 

 for themselves during temperate seasons, but in 

 severe and ice-bound winters, such as the last two, 

 they have fallen in bands from the weakness of 

 hunger that has prevented them from breaking out 

 from under the snow crust that had formed above 

 them when they had burrowed to find shelter from 

 the biting wind. 



In dealing with the winter protection of birds, 



food and shelter must go hand in hand; for one 



A SELF-FEEDING FEEDER without the Other is very much like the prescrip- 



From Berlepsch's ' Der Gesamte ■ r • • i i • i i i 



vogeischutz' tion toT an appetizer given by a charitable doctor 



