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29. Cardinal built in grape arbor. 





30. Catbird built in apple tree. 



tree. 



31. Wren built in bird-box. 





32. Cardinal built in apple tree. 





S:^. Catbird built in honeysuckle. 



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23. Robin built in apple tree. 



24. Catbird built in walnut tree. 



25. Least Flycatcher built in apple tree 



26. English Sparrow built in cornice 



27. Robin built in wild cherry tree. 



28. Catbird built in damson tree. 



ACCIDENTS HAPPENING TO BIRDS 



1. I found a Catbird in a large, high tub that the cattle drink from. This 

 bird had only one leg. It had come to the tub to drink, could not balance 

 itself on the side of the tub, and fell in and drowned. 



2. We found a male Baltimore Oriole hung in the nest it was building in 

 one of our walnut trees. 



3. I was down at our pond one evening watching two Snipes feeding around 

 the edges of the pond. Suddenly one flew up, and flew against a telephone wire, 

 and dropped in the road. I ran and picked it up. I thought it was dead, but 

 when I got home with it it could walk. We left it in a pen with no top over it 

 so it might fly away if it could. We took it to the pond every day and it would 

 eat. I found it Monday evening, and it died Thursday night. It could run and 

 swim very fast. It must have hurt its wings for it never flew at all. After look- 

 ing it up I learned it was a Semipalmated Sandpiper. 



[No habit is more valuable for the student of birds to acquire than that of keeping 

 regular notes. It is only by so doing that one can speak with certainty of past obser- 

 vations which may at any time become of interest to one's self or to others. — -J. T. N.] 



THE WHITE-CROWNED SPARROW 



The White-throated Sparrow is a familiar fall and winter bird, but how 

 many of Bird-Lore's young readers are familiar with its handsome relative, 

 the White-crowned Sparrow? In the east the White-crowned Sparrow is rare, 

 one of the prizes of migration, which may be looked for for years before it is 

 satisfactorily seen and identified. In the west where the White-throated 

 Sparrow does not occur, the White-crowned is more abundant, and there are 

 three geographic races of it recognized. See what Dr. Frank M. Chapman 

 has to say of the song of this bird, speaking of one of its South American 

 relatives elsewhere in this issue of Bird-Lore. 



