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tree. The White-breasted Nuthatch, the Tufted Titmouse and the Chickadee 

 like the nuts, suet and the corn. 



On the window-sill there is fastened a cigar-box that has nuts and corn in 

 it, and we can stand a foot away from the box and watch the different birds 

 come. They sit on the edge of the box, and hold the shells in their claws and 

 pick the meat out. The Chickadees are the tamest. 



All the children of our school belong to the Audubon Society. We put out 

 whole nuts for the squirrels who come every day. — Marion B. Cornish (aged 

 12), Stirling, N.J. 



These interesting records come from two scholars who attend the same school. 

 If they will send pictures of the squirrels and birds, which can be reproduced, Bird-Lore 

 will be glad to publish them. — A. H. W.] 



A Winter Record from Minnesota 



I feed the birds in winter, and the following species come to feed regularly; 

 Chickadee, White-breasted Nuthatch, Blue Jay, and Downy Woodpecker. 

 The main thing, however, is the "taming" of the Chickadees, as I call it. 

 From January 7 to January 20 the Chickadees ate from my hand every day 

 and seldom less than a dozen times a day. They would alight on my head and 

 then into my hand, or directly come to my hand. One Chickadee became so 

 tame that whenever it saw me, whether I was in the front yard, back yard or 

 anywhere near the house, it would come down and look for something to eat. 

 Many persons witnessed it, and thought it the cutest thing they had even seen 

 in bird-life. Some said they had read of it but never believed it until they saw 

 my birds do it. I was after the photographer several times to take the picture, 

 but he would not come out in the cold to do it and always looked for a warm 

 day. Since the weather has grown warmer the birds have ceased to eat from 

 my hand, much to my disappointment. — Harry B. Logan, Jr. (aged 16), 

 Royalton, Minn. 



[This lad lives in a town where nature-study is not carried on in the schools, where 

 only a few people care either to study or to protect the native birds, and where gunners 

 shoot birds by the wholesale for sport. Aside from the great pleasure he is deriving by 

 feeding and attracting bird-neighbors, he is doing a work of which any public-spirited 

 citizen should be proud. Note the observation of the feeding-habits of the Chickadee. — 

 A. H. W.] 



Can the Starling Resist the Cold as Well as the Robin? 



E. A. BurUngame, of Providence, R. I., reports that about the middle of 

 February he picked up a dead Starling at Bristol Highland, R. I., on a porch, 

 where it had flown, apparently for shelter. The weather had been extremely 

 cold for this locality the week preceding. It is possible that this Starling was 

 one of the brood hatched out last spring at South Swansea, Mass., which is 

 only five or six miles distant from Bristol Highland. So far as known, this is 

 the second record of the Starling in Rhode Island. — A^ H. W. 



