THE BIRD STUDY BOOK 



birds are always more numerous than in a dry region. 

 You may find a hundred of them along the stream 

 in the valley to one on the mountain-top. A ceme- 

 tery undecorated with fountains, and through or 

 near which no stream flows, is too dry a place for the 

 average bird to risk the exigencies of rearing a family. 

 A few simply constructed fountains or drinking- 

 pools will work wonders in the way of attracting 

 birds to a waterless territory. 



In many graveyards considerable unoccupied 

 space might well be planted in buckwheat or some 

 other small grain. If this is left uncut the quantity 

 of nourishing food thus produced will bring together 

 many kinds of grain-eating birds. 



Berries and Fruits for Birds. — Many native shrubs 

 and bushes grow berries that birds will come far to 

 gather. Look over the following list which Freder- 

 ick H- Kennard, of Massachusetts, has recom- 

 mended, and see if you do not think many of them 

 would be decorative additions to the cemetery. 

 Surely some of them are equal in beauty to many of 

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