Three Years After 



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A ROBIN TENANT 

 Three days after hatching this bird lost his wife and thereafter 

 raised the brood alone ■,"^- 



Photographed by Wilbur F. Smith 



sume, not only the natural 

 food of native species, but 

 great quantities of the 

 grain, berries, etc., for 

 winter feeding. 



Purple Grackles, 28; 

 Crows, 12. These birds 

 break up nests, we find, 

 while the Crow we have 

 proven to be an egg and 

 squab thief to such a 

 degree that, whatever 

 good he may do under 

 other conditions, he is an 

 impossibility in a Sanctu- 

 ary. We use the old 

 country way of placing 

 poison in hens' eggs, by 

 punching a small hole in 

 one end and stirring in 

 the poison with a straw. 



PHOTOGRAPHING A ROBIN TENANT 

 By Wilbur F. Smith 



