ATTRACTING BIRDS TO RESERVATIONS. 5 



plants are liable to become nuisances the food plants recommended 

 for the eastern quail will serve. 



Coverts for grouse, as the sharp-tailed, should abound in such plants 

 as rose, sumach, blueberry, bearberry, buffaloberry, dwarf birch, 

 and alder. The ruffed grouse thrives among scrub oak, bayberry, rose, 

 sumach, dwarf birch, alder, poplar, willow, and such fruit-bearing 

 plants as partridge berry, hawthorn, viburnum, wild grapes, mountain 

 ash, blueberry, blackberry, and cranberry. Cover of this nature is 

 suited to the heath hen also and to the imported pheasants and the 

 Hungarian partridge, but in all cases it is well to supplement the 

 food supply furnished by these shrubs and trees by planting small 

 grains and legumes as recommended for quail. 



Fig. 2.— Cedar waxwings at a bird fountain. 

 STATE, MUNICIPAL, AND OTHER PARKS. 



Parks adorn public places and educate and recreate the people. 

 They may be improved for all these purposes by increasing their 

 bird population. Moreover, the alterations that need be made to 

 improve a park as a bird haven may, and should, themselves be 

 made to add to its attractiveness. For instance, water is used to 

 enhance the beauty of most parks, and a water supply is one of the 

 most potent attractions for birds (fig. 1). Bird baths (figs. 2 and 3) 

 or fountains may take the form of small displays of water, which 

 may be added to many parks without being obtrusive or conflicting 

 with the general design. 



An artistic martin-house well placed in one of the small open 

 lawns that most large parks contain (fig. 4), would not only increase 

 the beauty and interest of the place, but would add to its dignity 

 by suggesting a specific usefulness for the space. As for nest boxes 



