Rural School Leaflet 



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II. BIRDS 



We hope that every boy and girl will do something to attract the birds 

 this year. Ask your teacher to read to you what is said in the September 

 leaflet about this. 



Have a feeding station 

 for the birds as sug- 

 gested by Doctor Allen. 

 Some day you may 

 have such interesting 

 guests as a chickadee, 

 a junco, a tree sparrow, 

 or a woodpecker. 



Did you know that 

 there are about twelve 

 hundred different kinds 

 of sparrows in the 

 world? How many 

 kinds can you learn to 

 know this year? What 

 can you learn of the 

 habits of the English 

 sparrows by actual observation? 



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A chickadee receiving a welcome meal 



What do they eat? Where do they 

 build their nests ? 



Make your bird houses 

 now and fasten them in 

 the places you have se- 

 lected so that they will 

 become weather stained 

 and lose their new appear- 

 ance before spring. 



It is interesting work 

 to make a collection of 

 the old nests of birds. 

 Practically all birds 

 build a new nest each 

 year, and there is no 

 harm in taking the old 

 one. Much can be 



learned from studying 

 Confidence ,, 



the nests. 



Keep a list of the birds that winter in your neighborhood. 



Tell Mr. Tuttle, in your letter to him, whether you have learned the 



poem on page three of thv=, teachers' leaflet. 



