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These four come almost every day, but besides these I sometimes see 

 English and Tree Sparrows after the crumbs upon the ground. With 

 them sometimes come the beautiful little Juncos, with their slaty gray 

 vests and white shirt-fronts. 



I have not yet induced a Hairy Woodpecker or a Flicker, who are 

 both cousins of the Downy, to come to my restaurant, and I do not 

 as yet number among my guests the Bluejay or the Crow. All of these 

 are among our common winter birds, but I suspect that the last two 

 would be unwelcome at the lunch counter; they are so large and domi- 

 neering that they would be likely to crowd out many of the smaller birds. 



I shall probably remain in the hotel business another season, and hope 

 to have other guests, like the Goldfinch in his winter coat, the Red- 

 breasted Nuthatch, Purple Finch, and others of the rarer winter birds. 



A WOODPECKER PATRON 



A Prize Offered 



Bird-Lore proposes to offer a series of prizes to Young Observers of 

 fourteen years or younger, who send the best accounts of the habits of certain 

 common birds. The first bird will be the crow. For the best article of 

 between 700 and 800 words on the crow we will give a copy of Seton- 

 Thompson's 'Lives of the Hunted,' or some other book of equal value. 

 The manuscript should be in our hands not later than January i, 1902. 



