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On the 19th they were not seen around 

 the nest. 



The following day I was not at home, 

 but on the 21st the nest contained two 

 eggs, and on the 25th four eggs. 



July 12, I heard young and saw the 

 old birds bringing food. Only two of the 

 eggs hatched. 



A week later or so, the old birds were 

 still bringing moths, butterflies, and 

 larvae to the young. They were seen but 

 once after leaving the nest, when the 

 old birds were feeding them up in a tree. 

 — Fred Gallup, Escondido, Cal. 



Mockingbird in Cleveland 



A Mockingbird visited East Cleveland 

 today and sang during the day and into 

 the night. His melody consisted of selec- 

 tions from the songs of the Bluebird, 

 Oriole, Phoebe, Killdeer, Cardinal, Tufted 

 Titmouse, Whip-poor-will, Night Hawk 

 and Cooper Hawk, the little Owl, and 

 others. Dr. F. H. Herrick, author of 

 'Home Life of Wild Birds,' regards it a 

 most rare visitor to this district. — 

 S. Louise Patteson, Waldheim, East 

 Cleveland, Ohio, April 22, 1917. 



A Successful Bird-Bath 



During the past season my bird-bath 

 was such a success that I want to tell 

 Bird-Lore readers about it. This is the 

 way it was made: First, a shallow box of 

 wood was made, 4 feet long by 2 feet wide^ 

 and 3 inches deep. This was plastered 

 inside with a good cement, left rather 

 rough. The cement was brought up at the 

 edge even with the board edge and then 

 sloped down to the bottom of the box. 

 One end was more shallow than the other. 

 When full, the water was not more than 

 2 inches deep in one end and about yi. 

 inch in the other. Every two or three days 

 I sweptrthe'water out with a broom and 

 refilled ^t. It was placed under a low- 

 spreading plum tree, so the birds did not 

 have to fly up more than 3 or 4 feet to 

 reach the tree. The grape-arbor sheltered 

 both tree and bath on the street side. It 



was not made and put out until the middle 

 of July, and we were away all of August, 

 so my observations were made in Sep- 

 tember and October. This is a list of the 

 birds I saw bathe in it: Robin, Blue- 

 bird, Junco, English Sparrows, Chipping 

 Sparrow, Song Sparrow, White-throated 

 Sparrow, Cedar Waxwing, Goldfinch, 

 Yellow Warbler, and Phoebe. 



A flock of fourteen Bluebirds used it 

 almost every day, coming usually be- 

 tween the hours of 4 and 5. p.m. Several 

 times I saw five Bluebirds in the bath at 

 one time. They had a very pretty way, 

 when they alighted on the edge of the 

 bath, of standing for an instant with 

 their wings outspread, as if looking at 

 themselves in the water. October 4 and 

 8, eighteen Bluebirds bathed in the late 

 afternoon. I think it was the same flock 

 of fourteen but some went in more than 

 once. Once I saw seven Robins in the 

 bath at one time, and twice I saw four 

 little Yellow Warblers bathe together. 

 The largest number I counted in one after- 

 noon was nineteen Robins, fourteen 

 Bluebirds, two Cedar Waxwings, one 

 Phcebe and dozens of English Sparrows 

 and Chipping Sparrows. The Bluebirds 

 came for their last bath October 13, 

 although they were about the neighbor- 

 hood until the last day of October. 

 October 21 four Robins, five Juncos, and 

 a large number of English Sparrows bathed. 

 The last song-bird to bathe was one lone- 

 some little Chippy on October 29. The 

 English Sparrows used the bath as long as 

 I kept water in it. I should add that we 

 have no cat, nor do we allow a cat to come 

 into the yard or garden during our wak- 

 ing hours. — Mrs. Arthur F. Gardener, 

 155 Maple Avenue, Troy, N. Y. 



A Boston Wood Duck 



It may be of interest to know that 

 this morning I saw a male Wood Duck in 

 the Charles River Basin. The river was 

 frozen over, except for a small area of 

 clear water where the overflow from the 

 Stony Brook conduit flows into the Basin. 

 Here was the Wood Duck, accompanied 



