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of a dog when he is whining for something. I secured one picture 

 outside showing how tame and how attached he had become to me. 

 He did not fly away until one day early this Spring when the weather 

 became balmy and his spirit moved him toi be going. One of the boys 

 left the basement door open and he disappeared. He was seen nearby 

 for a while by my Dad and he informed me that he was capable of 

 flying easily and correctly. So ended the experience of healing a bird. 

 I just wish to state that the bird has a lot of asphalt on his tail. 

 If you should come across him let me know but I presume it will 

 disappear in time. It would be interesting to see if a bird if kept 

 in captivity would have the instinct to again journey south in the 

 migration time. 



Edmund F. Hulsberg, La Grange. 



Notes from Lake Forest 



My observations are pretty generally limited to what I observe 

 from my study window ; and that that may not seem too narrow a 

 field, may I say that in just three years of residence in Lake Forest, 

 I have seen just 70 species from my windows, and have entertained 

 41 at either the food-shelf or the bird bath; while I have caught in 

 an enclosed porch in through whose door they occasionally fly when 

 scared suddenly from the shelf, 13 species, including the evening 

 grosbeak. But this winter tells no such story. The winter began 

 with the early and sudden departure of robins and grackles and song 

 sparrows on the arrival of the heavy fall of snow, October 31st, near- 

 ly two weeks earlier than my dates of the preceding years. The 

 white throats left the next day. Since then all I have to report is 

 the occasional visit of a hairy woodpecker, and only slightly less oc- 

 casional visits of the downy, the jay, the white-breasted nuthatch, 

 and the junco, — the latter being most frequent, but much less than 

 previously. Thqse cheerful residents the chickadees were with me a 

 scant week ; the evening grosbeaks have been seen but twice, the red- 

 polls and the red-breasted nuthatches not at all, — and the latter never 

 missed a day from November 9th to early in May, disappearing en- 

 tirely on May 24th. The cardinals were also daily visitors, a pair 

 of them, from January 22nd to March 21st. This year "nary" a car- 

 dinal has been near my place, though a neighbor, half a mile or more 

 away, has seen as many as eight at one time; they seem to have 

 flocked together this winter; last year the four pairs were scattered 

 over the town. The brown creeper has paid a visit to my restaurant 

 a few times, the red-headed woodpecker not at all, the Hudsonian 

 Chickadee not at all, nor the white-crowned; and even the kinglets 

 have been rare. I can only account for this by the severe cold 

 of December and the heavy snows of January. But I have missed them 

 all sorely. 



As others have reported a similar dearth I do not believe my 

 misfortune is due to any bad management of my shelf, but to con- 

 ditions, which after all may be unaccountable. 



George Roberts, Lake Forest. 



