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is a sufficient explanation. The forests are now all enclosed, and 
constitute a part of the pasture lands. The undergrowth and 
thick masses of shrubs, brambles, and creepers have’ disappeared ; 
the most of our little swamps are reclaimed ; and as these changes 
have occurred in the forest and field, fashion has prescribed a 
smooth lawn, with scattered trees and clumps of summer bedding 
plants around our dwellings, in place of the thick masses of shrub- 
bery which were cultivated a few years ago. And it is the birds 
which found their nesting-places and their food supplies in this 
shrubbery and undergrowth which have most thoroughly disap- 
peared. a 
The robin finds good nesting-places and an abundance of sum- 
mer food; the Baltimore oriole suspends its nest from the droop- 
ing branches of the elm; and both these birds are content to 
remain with us, In the forest and field, where the English spar- 
row does not intrude, the thrushes, the warblers, the fly-catchers, 
finches, and black-birds are by no means as abundant as formerly. 
Their nesting-places are greatly restricted, their food supplies 
diminished, and they find no thick copses, under the cover of 
which they delight to hide themselves, and in which so many find 
a large part of their supplies of food. ‘Their nests are more ex- 
posed, and their life is made uncomfortable by these changed con- 
or and they are driven to seek homes more congenial to their 
abits. 
A care for our forest reserves, which will protect them from the 
intrusion of domestic animals, and permit the renewal of the dense 
undergrowth which has been destroyed, and the culture of thick 
masses of shrubbery about our dwellings, will secure a return of 
the exiles, and perhaps a contest for the occupancy with the im- 
ported birds: We shall then learn whether they can dwell to- 
gether in amity or not.—JZ. C. Read, Hudson, Ohio. 
ANTHROPOLOGY.* 
?Edited by Prof. Orts T. Mason, Columbian College, Washington, D. C. 
