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Bird: Lore 
A Bi-monthly Magazine 
Devoted to the Study and Protection of Birds 
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE AUDUBON SOCIETIES 
Edited by FRANK M. CHAPMAN 
Published by D. APPLETON & CO. 
Vol. XII Puplished December 1, 1910 No.6 
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COPYRIGHTED, 1910, BY FRANK M. CHAPMAN 
Bird-Lore’s Motto: 
A Bird in the Rush ts Worth Two in the Hand 
Every one familiar with Mrs. Alice 
Hall Walter’s success as a teacher of birds, 
in Chicago, in Rhode Island, and while 
in charge of the course in bird study at 
the Cold Spring Biological Laboratory, 
will feel that Brirp—LORE is to be con- 
gratulated on the addition of her name 
to its Editorial Staff for r911. Mrs. Walter 
will aim to make Brrp—Lore increasingly 
valuable to teachers and their pupils by 
giving practical suggestions for methods 
and subjects of the study of our birds, 
and by securing their active codperation 
in conducting her department. 
Mrs. Wright, although resigning charge 
of the School Department, retains her 
editorial connection with Brrp—Lore, 
and every one interested in birds and 
gardens, as well as birds in gardens, will 
learn, with pleasant anticipations, that 
she will contribute to each number of 
Brrp—LorE for 1911 a paper on the birds 
of her garden. That Mrs. Wright’s garden 
is a famous place for flowers has long 
been known, but that it is equally favored 
by birds, comparatively few are aware. 
Over forty different species have been 
found nesting there, and the editor can 
aver from personal experience that it is 
equally attractive to the transient visitant. 
WE commend to our readers the annual 
reports of the National Association and 
State Audubon Societies contained in 
this issue of Brrp-Lore, confident that no 
one can read it attentively without being 
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impressed by the character and importance 
of the work which the champions of birds 
throughout the country are doing. For- 
tunately we are now reaching a stage in 
the history of these Societies when, so to 
speak, we can begin to live on our income. 
While we may never hope wholly to 
vanquish the enemies of birds, we at least 
have them in check, and can now turn 
our forces toward the educational side of 
birds’ relations to man, in order that he 
may reap the benefit of the heritage which 
has been saved for him. 
If one may judge from the increasing 
frequency with which requests for infor- 
mation concerning bird-houses, feeding 
devices, and various other means of 
attracting birds, are received, the Societies 
have already aroused a wide-spread and 
personal interest, from which one may 
expect results of the highest value, not 
alone to birds but to man as well. To 
contribute to the funds of these Societies 
is in truth but meeting them part way, 
for such contributions are, or should 
be considered as investments from which 
one should expect fair return; and such 
return the birds themselves will make if 
we but give them half a chance. 
To feel that certain birds are your 
tenants, that the presence of others is due 
wholly to your bounty, is to establish 
relations which forever after change 
the species to the individual. One may 
thus experience all the pleasures of 
companionship which we gain from 
association with captive birds, without 
feeling that we are playing the jailer. 
A pocGwoop tree, red with berries, 
beneath the editor’s study window, which 
had been missed by the Robins, was dis- 
covered early in November by about 
half a dozen Hermit Thrushes. For them 
it contained more than a week’s provisions; 
but, unfortunately, before they had made 
any visible decrease in the store, some 
fifty dusky-coated Starlings appeared, and 
within a day there were but few berries 
left. Here was a concrete illustration of 
competition over the food-supply the sig- 
nificance of which was all too apparent. 
