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Home Nature-Study Course. 



the first and second years, but teachers should certainly know more about 

 a subject than they are called on to teach. As a matter of fact these 

 lessons are fitted for almost any grade ; they are not supposed to follow 

 each other, day after day, but should be selected according to the material 

 on hand. 



As the number of leaflets issued is necessarily limited, the editor 

 asks that the teachers who wish to have the leaflets for the year will 

 communicate with her every month. These communications may be either 

 of the following: 



First, writing out in full the subject-matter of any five of the follow- 

 ing lessons, supplementing the information given by personal observa- 

 tions. Second, giving the experience of the teacher in presenting five of 

 the lessons to the pupils of any grade. 





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A Brood of Partridge Chicks. 



Photo, by Geoise Fishe, Jr. 



BEGINNING BIRD STUDY. 



The object of the study of any bird by any person is to ascertain 

 what the bird does. In order to accomplish this, it is necessary to know 

 what the bird is, — what it is being simply the step that leads to what it 

 does. What a bird does includes all its life habits, and to know these 

 is the object of the careful ornithologist, and is likewise the object of the 

 merest beginner. And just as truly it should be the object of the youngest 

 child, for the child naturally being interested in what the bird does, learns 

 in this way what the bird is. 



