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fly with difficulty, and are easily caught. The 

 fountain may be constructed in the ground, but 

 if so, there should be no bushes near, from 

 •which skulking cats can jump out at the birds 

 •while they are bathing. 



Fountains on Lawn. — In the illustration is 

 shown the drinking-fountain on the lawn of Mr. 

 C. D. Brown, of Rutherford, N. J. Mr. Brown 

 writes of it : " All of the vegetation is contained 

 in a portable wooden box six inches deep, and 

 consists of hardy marsh perennials secured from 

 the Hackensack Meadows. In spring the robins 

 sometimes steal the mud for their nests so fast 

 that the roots of the cat-tail, marsh-mallows, iris, 

 foxtails, etc., are often exposed." Of a similar one 

 on his own place, Mr. Chapman says, in " Bird- 

 Lore," that it met with the approval of most of 

 the birds in the vicinity of his house and was 

 patronized even by screech-owls. " It is made of 

 bricks and ce- 

 ment, and in 

 cross-section re- 

 sembles the ap- 

 pended diagram. 



"Boards may be used to form partitions, which 

 should be filled with earth. The plants intro- 

 duced were sagittaria, iris, yellow pond-lily, wild 



