BY THE WAYSIDE 
Brown Creeper 
Tufted Titmouse 
Towhee 
Oven-bird 
Phoebe 
Short-billed Marsh Wren 
Meadow Lark Black-billed Cuckoo 
Alder’s Flycatcher 
Swainson’s Hawk 
Least Sandpiper 
Pigeon Hawk 
Cowbird 
White-throated Sparrow 
Brown Thrasher Northern Shrike 
Barn Swallow Orchard Oriole 
Bewick’s Wren Wood Thrush 
Cooper’s Hawk Am. Woodcock 
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 
Black-throated Blue Warbler 
Golden-crowned Kinglet 
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 
Black-crowned Night Heron 
White-crowned Sparrow 
Vesper Sparrow Yellow-throated Vireo 
Lark Sparrow Kittiwake 
Am. Redstart Ring-billed Gull 
The Antigo Republican has a “Bird 
Corner'’ in its weekly issue conducted by 
“Phoebe Bird.” The following extract is 
taken from a recent article: 
March 22, 1906.—When my friend 
and I decided to take up the study of 
birds recently, we were told that an An¬ 
tigo gentleman, whose business took him 
into the woods much ol the time had 
said that it was no use to try to study 
birds in the vicinity of Antigo, as he had 
noticed in his trips through the woods 
almost an entire absence of birds. How¬ 
ever, we were not discouraged and at the 
close of the summer we knew at sight 
about sixty, and now, after four years of 
observation, we know about one hundred 
and fifteen, and there are still more 
worlds to conquer; for we know there are 
others that ought to be found here and 
we are still hoping to find them. 
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At first we had no books or glasses, 
just our good two eyes. I shall never 
forget the fascination of that first sum¬ 
mer’s study. Why, one day we flushed 
a bird from the ground up near the Fair 
grounds. It was somewhat larger than 
a robin, with a spotted back and a beau¬ 
tiful bright yellow breast, with a black 
crescent. We looked and exclaimed at 
his beauty (it was a “him,” for all the 
males in bird land are the ones who wear 
the gay clothes), and we surely thought 
we had discovered a bird of Paradise. 
We could scarcely wait till we reached 
town. Going to my friend’s husband’s 
place of business we told him in glowing 
language about our newly discovered 
bird. One often hears bovs tell of feeling 
like “thirty cents.” That is just how we 
felt when we were informed that our find 
“was only a meadow lark; any farm bov 
knows him.” We then and there made 
up our minds to make a success of bird 
study. We purchased books and glasses 
and then when we found birds that we 
did not know we referred to our books 
and soon learned to analyze them just as 
one studies a flower .—Antigo Republican. 
Bird Houses in Chicago Parks. 
A recent Chicago paper gives pictures 
of the first of three hundred bird houses 
built by children in the elementary 
school of Chicago University to be placed 
in suitable locations in Jackson and 
Washington Parks. The attempt will be 
made to induce the nightingale, oriole, 
and other song birds to nest in the city. 
The houses are painted drab to harmon¬ 
ize with the color of the trunks of the 
trees. They will accommodate several 
kinds ofbirds. 
