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to become friendly with care and plenty 

 of patience, as the enclosed pictures prove. 

 It has taken more than a year to get on 

 intimate terms with this little lady. The 

 latter part of the cold winter of a year ago, 

 I succeeded in getting her to snatch food 

 from my hand a few times. Last summer 



nast, without moving a wing or ruffling a 

 feather, while her husband stands over in 

 a nearby tree scolding and perhaps call- 

 ing me all kinds of names. — Geo. M. 

 Marckres, Sharon, Conn. 



THE ACROBAT 



THE GIANT SWING 



she nested about 300 feet from my feeding 

 station and came nearly every day for her 

 butternut meats and in July brought her 

 family of four youngsters with her several 

 times. Now she will perch on my hand, 

 take food from my mouth, or do 'stunts' 

 for me on her little grape-vine trapeze, 

 hanging by her toes for nut-meats and pull- 

 ing up on top again, like an expert gym- 



The Scarcity of Golden-crowned 

 Kinglets 



Golden-crowned Kinglets were unusually 

 abundant in the autumn and the beginning 

 of December, 191 7, in Eastern Massa- 

 chusetts, but after the advent of the re- 

 markably cold weather of that winter, 

 they practically disappeared from this 



