Junior IRaturalist /IftontbliP 



Published by the College of Agriculture of Cornell 

 University, from October to May, and entered at 

 Ithaca as second=clas5 matter. L. H. Bailey, Director 



ALICE G. McCLOSKEY. Editor 



New Series. Vol. 2. ITHACA, N. Y., APRIL, 1906. 



No. 7 



CARE OF NESTLINGS 



No longer now the wing'd habitants, 

 That in the woods their sweet lives sing away. 

 Flee from the form of man ; but gather round, 

 And prune their sunny feathers on the hands 

 Which little children stretch in friendly sport 

 Toward these dreadless partners of their play. 



— Shelley. 



In the last Junior Naturalist Monthly we spoke of the care of 

 young birds. Do not forget this. The old birds have to fight so many 

 enemies that boys and girls 

 will, I know, be glad to help 

 them. Probably the one 

 most to be feared is the 

 household cat. Keep her 

 indoors at night during the 

 nesting season. Tie a bell 

 on her neck when she is out 

 in the daytime and watch 

 her ; this will be helpful to 

 the old birds. If any boy 

 or girl is ambitiotis to raise 

 five or six kittens, he must 

 remember that if he would 

 have song hire's in his 

 neighborhood, there must 

 not be too many cats. Think 

 of the harm that one cat 

 in every household would 



make in the bird world! Photographed by Veme Morton. 



Have vou tried placing the Cats and birds are not so friendly as they scan to be here. 

 tin shelf around the trees 

 to keep the cats from climbing up to the nests? 



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