Illustrations xvii 



A "Weathercoge" Food House* 



A Window Box in the Author's Study , 



From a photograph by Louise Birt Baynes 



An Audubon Pood House in Winter* 



An "Automatic" Food House Holds a Bushel 

 OF Seed* 



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Barred Owl, Usually a Beneficial Bird* 



A Decorative Bird Bath* 



Young Baltimore Oriole before the Bath* 



After the Bath * . 



Song Sparrows Enjoying a Bath* . 



Bird Bath in the Author's Garden . 



Prom a photograph by Louise Birt Baynes 



Chickadee Feeding under a Berlepsch "Food 



Bell"* ....... 202 



Chickadee at a Berlepsch Nest Box* . . 202 



A Bird Bath Memorla.l to Edward Everett 



Hale* 212 



A Bird Bath in Newton Centre, Mass. . . 226 



From a photograph by Marr 



Bronze Bird Bath Commemorating the "Bird 



Masque" 230 



Designed by Mrs. Louis Saint-Gaudens 



Ducks Dying of Starvation on Long Island . 240 



From a photograph by Wilbur Smith 



A Swan that was Carried over the Falls . 240 

 From a photograph by James Savage 



