April, r91t 
Garden Work About the Home 
(Continued from page xix) 
Gardens”; Sieveking, ‘Gardens, Ancient 
and Modern”; P. G. Hamerton, ‘‘The 
Landscape”; Van Rensselaer, “Art Out 
of Doors”; Repton, “The Art of Land- 
scape Gardening”; Downing, “Landscape 
Gardening”; Hemp, “Landscape Garden- 
ing”; Blomfield, ‘““The Formal Garden in 
England”; Robinson, ‘““The English Flower 
Garden”; Robinson, ‘““The Parks and Gar- 
dens of Paris.” 
These books will give general knowl- 
edge. For information on special sub- 
jects, consult “The American Cyclopedia 
of Horticulture,’ “Garden and Forest,” 
and all the volumes in the Rural Science 
Series. 
HOW BIRDS WORK TOGETHER 
URNSTONE is the name of a variety 
of shore-birds that are allied to the 
plovers and the sand-pipers. This 
name has been given to them because of 
their singular manner of feeding. With 
their strong bills they turn over the small 
stones lying in the sand of the beaches to 
find the insects that may be sheltered un- 
derneath. If the stone prove too heavy for 
the bill, they push it over by applying the 
breast to the upper side. Frequently a num- 
ber of these birds will work together to 
turn over an object that is too heavy for 
one alone to move. 
Two little workers were once seen busily 
endeavoring to turn over a dead fish that 
was fully six times their size. They were 
boldly pushing at the fish with their bills 
and then with their breasts. Their en- 
deavors were, however, in vain, and the 
object remained immovable. 
Then they both went round to the oppo- 
site side and began to scrape away the sand 
from beneath the fish. After removing a 
considerable quantity, they again came back 
to the spot where they had been, and went 
once more to work with their bills and 
breasts, but with as little apparent success 
as before. Nothing daunted, however, they 
ran round a second time to the other side 
and recommenced their trenching opera- 
tions with a seeming determination not to 
be baffled in their object, which evidently 
was to undermine the dead creature before 
them in order that it might be the more 
easily overturned. 
While they were thus employed, and 
after they had labored in this manner at 
both sides alternately for nearly half an 
hour, they were joined by another of their 
species, which came flying with rapidity 
from the neighboring rocks. Its timely ar- 
rival was hailed with evident signs of joy. 
Their mutual congratulations being over, 
they all three set to work, and after labor- 
ing vigorously for a few minutes in removy- 
ing the sand, they came round to the other 
side, and putting their breasts to the fish, 
succeeded in raising it some inches from 
the sand, but were unable to turn it over. 
It went down again into its sandy bed to 
their manifest disappointment. 
Resting, however, for a space, and with- 
out leaving their respective positions, which 
were a little apart the one from the other, 
they resolved, it appeared, to give the work 
another trial. Lowering themselves, with 
their breasts close to the sand, they man- 
aged to push their bills underneath the fish, 
which they made to rise about the same 
height as before. Afterward, withdrawing 
their bills, but without losing the advantage 
which they had gained, they applied their 
breasts to the object. This they did with 
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