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Advertising The Illinois Audubon Society 
Doesn’t it do your heart good! Not several girls with 
fancy complexions standing with coveting eyes on a window 
perhaps of hats which they could never have, but several men 
just as interested in a window full of information about our 
birds—pictures of our birds that they may have themselves, 
the first early morning they get out to take the picture! This 
is what you may see any minute of any day down in one of the 
busiest blocks of the loop in Chicago. 
On the east side of La Salle Street south of Washington 
Street, the Harris Trust and Savings Bank have a window here 
in this busy world that may give every one on every day a few 
minutes of rest and pleasure. There are about a dozen bird 
nests of varied construction principles that have been loaned 
by the Chicago Academy of Sciences—Bobolink, Chimney 
Swift, Field Sparrow, Pin-tail Duck, Golden-crowned Kinglet; 
Grebe, Meadow Lark, Wood Pewee. There is a series of nine 
photographs of the nest, eggs and young at different ages of 
the Red-Tailed Hawk, also loaned by the Chicago Academy of 
Sciences, making a very interesting window altogether. Then 
there are copies of the Illinois Audubon Bulletin and of the 
Check List, as well as a copy of the statement of the purposes 
and principles of the Audubon Society. 
Around the corner on Washington Street in the same build- 
ing is another window calling attention to the work of the 
Wild Flower Preservation Society. All best wishes to these 
business houses with their windows so welcome to our eyes! 
The Cardinal's Etiquette 
From my observations I imagine that the male Kentucky 
Cardinal is an autocrat during all seasons except the mating 
time in early May, desiring to eat his lunch alone and conse- 
quently in peace. I have seen him drive Mrs. Cardinal away 
from the feed tray many times during the summer and fall 
months. Today the female came to the feeding tray and com- 
menced to eat. In a few minutes the male joined her, both 
eating peacefully for a few moments. Then Mrs. Cardinal went 
out to the edge of the tray and looked longingly at the male who 
soon brought her a sunflower seed. He repeated the dose when 
she flew to an adjoining tree. He fed her three times there. 
She then flew to another tree where he fed her twice. Both birds 
then departed. 
W. C. EGAN 
