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Children and the Study of Birds. 



Any one supposed to know even a 

 little natural history will early be 

 forced to take some stand in regard 

 to the problem of the child and the 



tures. He will shoot them, trap them, 

 kill or cripple them by fair means or 

 foul ; but, believe me, he loves them 

 nevertheless. 



I once knew a boy that broke both 



bird. Children when they have half bones of his right arm while shooting 



a chance prove that they are born bird birds with a sling shot. While the 



lovers ; if they are boys, normal, vig- arm was still bandaged and entirely 



orous, healthy boys, this love is likely useless he would steal into the back 



to find expression in the form of sling yard and shoot at robins in the adjoin- 



shots, air guns, spring guns and other ing garden by bracing the crotch of 



snares of the fowler. It was ever the his sling in the picket fence. That was 



boy's way of wooing the wild crea- twenty years ago. Now the boy, an 



SLATE-COLORED JUNCO. 



