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BY TIIE WAYSIDE 
BY THE WAYSIDE 
Published on the tenth of each month except 
July and August. 
The official organ of the Wisconsin, Illinois and 
Michigan Audubon Societies. 
Twenty-five cents per year Single copies 5 cents 
Contributions to By the Wayside are invited 
from all lovers of Nature nnd friends of the 
birds. All communications should be sent to 
Roland E. Kremers, 1720 Vilas St., Madison, 
Wis. 
We particularly urge the school chil¬ 
dren to take up the study of the tree- 
sparrow and junco during the winter 
months, to keep records, ana to send 
these records to 7 ’By the Wayside.” 
Sucli information will he of value to 
science. ()n 1 * most learned ornithol¬ 
ogists say that so little is known of the 
life histories of our commonest birds, 
that trustworthy crumbs of informa¬ 
tion from any source are most grate¬ 
fully received.” 
1 lie A. (). I . check list has recently 
changed the name of the Savanna spar¬ 
row to Savannah, the species being 
named in honor of that city. The lat¬ 
est publications use the changed spell¬ 
ing. 
Winter Birds-How to Attract Them 
kilo* vegetables out of season our win 
ler birds are to be counted as luxuries, 
and no one can have them who is not 
willing to pay the price. However, no 
trust has so manipulated their cost of 
livng that they have ceased to be vvith- 
■ n t,l( * reach of all. Really they are 
good pay and are apt to stick to any 
hoarding house where the service is 
I <ii 11 \ good and the food wholesome. 
If you want winter birds as boarders 
instead of* putting a card in your win¬ 
dow, advertise for them by tying a lib¬ 
eral piece of suet in a nearby tree. 
I ben tack up a shallow cigar box on 
the outer, rail of the veranda, and an¬ 
other on the window sill of your living 
room, and keep them supplied with 
hemp seed and unroasted peanuts, the 
latter shelled and cut into thin slices. 
Presto! the nut hatches, chickadees, and 
the hairy and downy wookpeckers have 
accepted your invitation to a feast, and 
if i o11 keep their table richly supplied! 
like the poor, they will always be with 
you. 
Tabby, a domestic relic of barbarism, 
will have to go, or she will gorge her¬ 
self on the birds’ suet and devour them 
before your very eyes. Remember, if 
you keep a oat your charity becomes a 
worse treachery to the friends, your 
bird neighbors, that you have asked to 
partake of your hospitality. 
In your own way, impress it upon 
the ubiquitous sparrow, that “No Eng¬ 
lish need apply.” Without going into 
any discussion as to the English spar¬ 
rows’ right to “life, liberty and the 
pursuit of happiness” which may bo 
equal to our own; he is not a neighbor 
that we need feel called upon to invite 
to all our feasts. 11 is undoubted abil¬ 
ity to shift for himself, and his shock¬ 
ing want of breeding and quarrelsome 
disposition, furnish sufficient reasons 
for excluding him from polite society. 
Tf Mr. Blue Jay is attracted, as he is 
very liable to be, don’t repulse him, 
neither would it be well to allow him 
to eat “the children’s bread.” 
Throw out unshelled peanuts in quan¬ 
tities and he will give you a lesson in 
industry, the like of which you never 
saw, and at the same time supply an 
at tractive “bit of blue” on many a 
grey winter’s day. 
Continued. 
Victor Kctchin, M. D., 
Green Lake, Wis. 
