BY THE WAYSIDE. 
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ne day it ate: 3 angle worms, 7 meal worms, 
) potato bugs, 4 houseflies, 1 grub, % yolk 
: egg. After about a week we thought it 
ould die. We put it in the mulberry bush. 
I ; ate some of the berries and got better, then 
e gave it fruit instead of worms and it got 
I itter right along. At the end of two weeks 
stayed out in the trees day and night, but 
ime to the door every hour and called to be 
*d. It liked meal worms best. 
For three or four weeks it came to the door 
> be fed. If any of us whistled for it, it would 
y down from the tree tops and alight on our 
nger. One morning it brought another gros- 
?ak to the door to be fed; that was the last 
me it came to be fed. We saw many gros- 
jaks in the yard, but none came to us when 
e whistled, so we think ours flew away down 
I mth. 
Richard Redfield, age 10 years: 
Oshkosh, Wis., 194 Ceape St. 
Wayside. —This is the first letter I have 
ritten to you and I am going to describe a 
air of birds. The breasts of them are yellow, 
le heads are of a blackish brown color, the 
ings are black and white, the back is of a 
rownish color and the tail is all black. They 
re about from six to eight inches long and are 
eshy. Their beak is about an inch long, 
hey were on a tree in our back yard and were 
iting the bugs off the tree. They were about 
j! ve minutes in that tree, hopping from one 
( ranch to another and then they flew to another 
ree. There they sat a while and then they 
ew away. The most peculiar thing was that 
hey did not sing, nor even chirped. 
Raymond Abraham, age 14. 
These birds were evening grosbeaks, and they 
ere probably eating buds, not bugs. 
Mazomanie, Wis. 
Dear Wayside. —The other day as I was 
oing to school I saw two chickadees. They 
i ad dark blue on the top of the head, light 
lue back, wings and tail, light yellow breast 
nd whitesh gray throat and chin. When the 
, hickadee sings it says, “chick-adee-dee-dee.” 
It is a very small bird, it is not quite as 
irge as an English sparrow. 
These chickadees which I saw were playing. 
>ne would hop on every branch of a maple 
tree, the other followed and went on the same 
branches. Then they both flew to their nest. 
Ida Schlick, age 12 years. 
Ida’s bird is probably the Hudsonian chicka¬ 
dee which is rare in Wisconsin. The descrip¬ 
tion of this species is: Crown dark brownish 
gray; back brownish ashy; wings and tail 
grayish ; throat black; ear coverts, sides of neck, 
breast and belly white; sides rufous. 
Chilton Audubon Society, 
Preamble. —We, the members of the Chilton 
Branch of the Audubon Society of Wisconsin, 
in order to protect wild bird life and bird’s 
eggs, and to promote means of protection for 
the same, do establish this Constitution for the 
people of Chilton interested in the same. 
Article I. 
Section 1. The officers of this society shall 
be: president, vice-president, secretary, treas¬ 
urer, and sergeant-at-arms, who shall be elected 
by (a) a two-thirds majority. 
Sec. 2. All election for officers shall be by 
ballot. 
Sec. 3. No age qualifications shall, be placed 
upon any one seeking admission to this society. 
Sec. 4. No person shall be a voter in this 
society who has not attained the age of eight 
years, and been a member of the society for 
three months. 
Sec. 5. The president of this society shall 
have the power to appoint other necessary offi¬ 
cers and committees. 
Sec. 6. Meetings shall be held once every 
month, and election of officers every six months. 
Sec. 7. At each regular meeting a literary 
program relative to the interests and objects of 
the society shall be given, followed by whatever 
business transactions may be deemed necessary. 
Sec. 8. Special meetings may be called by 
the president, upon petition of three-fourths of 
the members of the society. 
Sec. 9. Members of this society shall have 
the right to propose amendments to this con¬ 
stitution at any regular meeting, and if the 
amended law receives a two-thirds vote, it shall 
become a part of the constitution. 
Sec. 10. The teacher of the grammar depart¬ 
ment shall have the privilege of advising in the 
work of the society, and he or she shall have 
the power to make all necessary arrangements 
