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I think one nice way to attract Hummingbirds and Goldfinches around a 

 house is to have cannas and sunflowers planted in the yard. — (Miss) 

 Gladys Fanton, Good Ground, L. I. 



[See 'Experiments in Feeding Hummingbirds During Seven Summers,' The Wil- 

 son Bulletin, Vol. XXV, No. 85. Among our daintiest and most familiar birds^ the two 

 species referred to above offer daily pleasure and interest to anyone so fortunate as to 

 have their companionship. The female Hummingbird when perching looks more like 

 a large dragonfly than a bird. The Goldfinch is quite as acrobatic as the Chickadee in 

 its feeding activities. — A. H. W.] 



CALIFORNIA THRASHER 

 Photographed by Emily S. M. Waite 



A CALIFORNIA THRASHER 



This photograph of a California Thrasher was taken near the 'Cottages' at the 

 upper end of the Ojai Valley, Ventura County, California, which is a veritable paradise 

 for birds, from the humble 'Linnet' to the great Condor sailing over the highest peaks of 

 the Santa Ynez Mountains. We had for implements a No. 3 A. Folding Kodak, with 

 portrait lens, and a wooden box loaded with stones, to which the camera was tied as we 

 possessed no clamp to steady it. We placed a large flat stone on a pedestal of smaller 

 ones, and put food on it twice a day before we tried any snapshots. — Emily S. M. 

 Waite, Nordhof, California. 



