20 THE AUDUBON BULLETIN 



Advertising The Illinois Audubon Society 



Doesn't it do your heart good ! Not several girls with 

 fancy complexions standing with coveting eyes on a window 

 perhaps of hats which they could never have, but several men 

 just as interested in a window full of information about our 

 birds — pictures of our birds that they may have themselves, 

 the first early morning they get out to take the picture ! This 

 is what you may see any minute of any day down in one of the 

 busiest blocks of the loop in Chicago. 



On the east side of La Salle Street south of Washington 

 Street, the Harris Trust and Savings Bank have a window here 

 in this busy world that may give every one on every day a few 

 minutes of rest and pleasure. There are about a dozen bird 

 nests of varied construction principles that have been loaned 

 by the Chicago Academy of Sciences — Bobolink, Chimney 

 Swift, Field Sparrow, Pin-tail Duck, Golden-crowned Kinglet; 

 Grebe, Meadow Lark, Wood Pewee. There is a series of nine 

 photographs of the nest, eggs and young at different ages of 

 the Red-Tailed Hawk, also loaned by the Chicago Academy of 

 Sciences, making a very interesting window altogether. Then 

 there are copies of the Illinois Audubon Bulletin and of the 

 Check List, as well as a copy of the statement of the purposes 

 and principles of the Audubon Society. 



Around the corner on Washington Street in the same build- 

 ing is another window calling attention to the work of the 

 Wild Flower Preservation Society. All best wishes to these 

 business houses with their windows so welcome to our eyes! 



±he Cardinal s Etiquette 



From my observations I imagine that the male Kentucky 

 Cardinal is an autocrat during all seasons except the mating 

 time in early May, desiring to eat his lunch alone and conse- 

 quently in peace. I have seen him drive Mrs. Cardinal away 

 from the feed tray many times during the summer and fall 

 months. Today the female came to the feeding tray and com- 

 menced to eat, In a few minutes the male joined her, both 

 eating peacefully for a few moments. Then Mrs. Cardinal went 

 out to the edge of the tray and looked longingly at the male who 

 soon brought her a sunflower seed. He repeated the : dose when 

 she flew to an adjoining tree. He fed her three times there. 

 She then flew to another tree where he fed her twice. Both birds 

 then departed. 



W. C. Egan 



