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refuse that washes up along the shore and frequently fly far inland to 
garbage dumps on the edge of the city. They do not nest here, but on 
islands in the northern part of Lake Michigan and farther north. 
In winter flocks of old-squaw and golden-eyes seek open water in the 
harbors of Lincoln Park. With them come the American and red-breasted 
mergansers which on their breeding grounds in the far north are exceed- 
ingly shy. Occasionally a white-winged scoter comes close into shore. The 
rest of the year he lives far out in the ocean and breeds on the arctic tundra. 
The open water and food supply of the city bring these northern birds as 
regular and friendly winter visitors. 
CHICAGO ACADEMY OF SCIENCES PHOTO 
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In the city parks and gardens and in the suburbs many birds which were 
once woods dwellers have taken up their homes. The brown thrasher and 
catbird love the tangled shrubbery in our back-yards and build their nests 
in the hedgerows. Lilacs bring the cardinal close to the house to nest. The 
wood thrush, a shy bird of the deep woods, now nests in vacant wooded 
lots, and his hymn-like notes can be heard of a summer evening in the 
heart of our villages. The Baltimore oriole has found our elm-lined streets 
much to his liking and is more common there than in the open country. 
In our vegetable gardens the little house wren is almost completely 
domesticated. He takes over any rude box we hang out and makes himself 
the bustling proprietor of the garden. A house wren in the woods now 
seems a mistake. The tiny chipping sparrow also prefers gardens, barn- 
yards and roadsides, and makes his horsehair lined nest in the honeysuckle 
