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BY THE wayside 
Illinois Prize Letter. 
Little York, Ill., Feb. 26, 1907. 
Hear \Y ayside: 
We put a little shelf upon the window 
s i utter. The chickadee came first. He 
ooks tn at us through the window. He 
ias bright black eyes and very black cap 
and chin. He likes the suet which we 
tack to the shelf. Two other chickadees 
s t o„ the maple branch eight feet away 
ut just one chickadee comes to eat at a 
time. The white-breasted nut-hatch 
comes to the shelf. He is a little more 
shy than the chickadee. ft has an odd 
way of poking out its head. It has a 
longer bill than the chickadeee and has 
reddish brown between the legs and tail. 
It spreads its tail feathers and shows 
white feathers when it is driving other 
irds away. We hope to have the chick- 
mo e nth m thS Wind0 "’ duH,lg 
Mabel Johnson. 
“ nd the , rest of body was bright 
caTef fir 7 T ?“ Wrd is 80 ™ti7es 
h K 7 ! ng blrd ’ P Ur P le r °hin and 
is like fi ’~ fi 7 hang Wrd is because it 
I' 6 C0l0r and hang bird because 
t hangs his nest and Baltimore oriole is 
because it is called after Baltimore city. 
kille b^c ‘ u 11686 birdS Sh ° Uld not be 
.I, L ;«'Z de “ roj »“«* 
O- A Baltimore oriole is almost 
aS large as a r °bin. There are not as 
main orioles as there used to be ten 
years ago. ten 
Aged 1S - Frank Hynek. 
KellnersvilJe, Wis., Feb. 22 1907 
Hear Wayside: 
■ One early morning in June as I was 
walking along I heard the prettiest, sweet¬ 
est notes, and I saw the prettiest bird that 
I have ever seen in my life. It was the 
Baltimore oriole sitting on a branch in 
the garden, he was there all alone for 
three days, and then came another; thev 
stayed there all the week, and I saw Mr 
Oriole carry a big long string and I 
watched him and he tied it to a ] ou <r 
branch way out on the end. In two,lavs 
they had a nest finished and Mrs. Oriole 
was sitting in it, and Mr. Oriole was sit¬ 
ting on a branch not faraway. Mr. Ori- 
° Ie was the brighter; his neck, head and 
pait of his wings and tail were coal black 
Dear \7' enS 1°^’ Wis '> Feb - 28, 1907. 
wear Wayside: 
The other day I read a storv about a 
swallow whose nest had fallen and whose 
- w h„,b.z 
., hot ’ and “ sa >d that she helped the 
other swallows to o- e t fonfi f .u ■ 
babies. ° °° d for ,heir 
1 would like to know if it is true tJ t 
the swallow did reallv heln tb„ “ 
swallows with their children 
. , Yours truJv, 
’ ?6d J0 - Ada M. Warner. 
it/for'7h n0t I 1 " 66 " able t0 find an - v au ‘bor- 
- the above story. Though birds 
do very mter^tinn +i • T ® J rus 
th - „ • terestln S things I am afraid in 
this case she would have been more likeiv 
to have gone off and found another mate 
Dear w' Uh '1"''’""’ Wi8 " Feb ' b 1907. 
It ’ll? , blUebird is . a ver y pretty bird. 
and 7 7 "‘" gS ‘ ta,i and head are blue 
anc * ] ts breast is a reddi«b i 
vt i • . reaaisn brown Th** 
ThTv ^Id th 0 "' S6Ven ineheS in kngtb. 
' U ‘ ld their nests in hollow stumps. 
