Photograph by Ernest Harold Baynes 



A BAI^TIMORi; ORIOIIvE; after A BATH 



The Baltimore oriole is remarkable for its bright colors, and to these it owes its name, 

 as the livery of the Lords Baltimore, who founded Maryland, was orange and black of just 

 those tones that the bird exhibits. Cats have been eliminated on this place. 



interesting experiences on a game pre- 

 serve in Connecticut, where low-lying 

 areas have been flooded and the wild 

 ducks attracted in increasing numbers 

 each vear from miles around (see picture, 

 page 1/5). 



I know of one man in Canada who 

 several years ago fed a small flock of 

 wild geese that chanced to alight in a 

 pond close beside his house. The geese 

 appreciated the treatment so much tliat 

 thev later returned with friends, and 

 ]ia\e kept it up from year to year until 

 now I believe that he has had at one time 

 several hundred wild geese virtually in 

 his front yard, and in a very exposed 

 position at that. They seem absolutely 

 fearless, come and go at will, though onlv 

 a short distance away are gunners who 

 are waiting to take a crack at them. 



Onl)' a few of us have ponds to wliich 

 geese may be attracted, but the foregoing 

 experiment shows what can be and has 

 been done in the way of attracting and 

 taming locally tlie sh\' wild geese. 



iroUSI'.S FOR Tin; BIRDS 



( )f liird-liouses, to Ije supplied for those 

 liirds that nest about Ijuildings or in 



holes of trees, there seems to be an al- 

 most infinite variety — tree stumps, real 

 or artificial, boxes, cottages, houses, large 

 and elaborate mansions, barrel-houses, 

 gourds, flower-pots, tin cans, shelves, 

 and all kinds of contraptions. 



Air. Ernest Thompson Seton went so 

 far as to construct on his place in Con- 

 necticut a huge artificial stump, filled 

 with imitation woodpeckers' holes, etc. 

 He attracted numbers of dififerent kinds 

 of birds and animals, and he seems to 

 have had no end of fun with it. It is not 

 allowed to all of us, however, to be given 

 either the opportunity or the enthusiasm 

 possessed by Mr. Seton. 



Of the various kinds of houses space 

 will allow but brief mention. On my 

 own place, which is covered largel)' with 

 woods, I have used one special type of 

 \ertical boxes with considerable success. 

 These are simply sections of logs, hol- 

 lowed out by special machiner_\- in a \'ery 

 jiarticular manner to represent wood- 

 ])ecker cavities, with entrance hole in 

 side, of desired diameter, and covereci by 

 a wooden caj) or roof that may be lifted 

 for pur])oses of investigation or in order 

 that the nests ma\' lie cleaned out from 



