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tical directions for the attracting and the 

 conserving wild bird life. 



The scope of the work is set forth in a 

 prefatory note by T. Gilbert Pearson, Sec- 

 retary of the National Association of Au- 

 dubon Societies, as follows: 



"There has grown up in the United 

 States, within the past ten years, a wide- 



"As a natural consequence of these mani- 

 festations of interest on the part of the 

 public, there has appeared an increased de- 

 sire to have birds come about the home in 

 greater numbers. People are wanting more 

 robins on the lawn, more wrens in the 

 garden, and more bluebirds, thrashers,, and 

 woodpeckers in the neighborhood. 



spread interest in birds, the extent of which 

 has never been equalled in this or any other 

 country. Along with the desire to acquire 

 more knowledge regarding the habits and 

 activities of these feathered denizens of the 

 great Outside has arisen a sense of personal 

 obligation to aid all movements that tend 

 toward safeguarding their lives and pro- 

 longing their usefulness. 



'T recall that less than ten years ago I 

 spent much time in an effort to induce a 

 certain man to begin the manufacture and 

 sale of nesting-boxes for birds and similar 

 apparatus, with the view of supplying a 

 demand which I felt was certain to come. 

 It was with very great difficulty that he 

 was induced to go into this business. To- 

 day there are more than twenty well-known 



