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ing- of nature's realms ! Xor does the 

 good work end with the children, for 

 every one of them carries home the 

 knowledge he has gained and educates 

 his father and mother and the other 

 members of the family. So there is no 

 measuring the good that this work is 

 accomplishing. "A little child shall 

 lead them." 



Bulletins of Interest to Bird Students. 



The following bulletins may be obtain- 

 ed free while the supply lasts from the 

 Editoi- and Chief, Division of Publica- 

 tions, and after that at a nominal cost 

 from the Superintendent of Documents, 

 U. S. Dept. of Agriculture, Washington. 

 D. C. 



There are constantly new bulletins of 

 this nature appearing from this depart- 

 ment, as well as from the various State 

 r)Oards of Agirculture, and bird students 

 would do well to keep in touch with 

 tliem, as nowhere else may so much val- 

 uable information be obtained at so slight 

 a cost. 



DEPARTMENT BL'LEETINS. 



Xo. 107. Birds in relation to the alfalfa 



weevil. 

 X'o. 128. Distribution and migration X. 



A. rails and their allies. 

 X^o. 187. Preliminarv census of birds of 



the U. S. ' 



farmers' bulletins. 

 X^o. 197. Importation of game birds and 



eggs for propagation. 

 X^o. 390. Pheasant raising in the U. S. 

 Xo. 456. Our grosbeaks and their value to 



agriculture. 

 X'o. 493. The English sparrow as a pest. 

 Xo. 497. Some common game, aquatic 



and rapacious birds in relation to 



man. 

 Xo. 506. Food of some well-known birds 



of forest, farm and garden. 

 Xo. 513. Fifty common birds of farm and 



orchard. 

 X'^o. 609. Bird houses and how to build 



them. 

 X'o. 621. How to attract birds in north- 

 eastern U. S. 

 X'^o. 630. Some common l)irds useful to 



the farmer. 



C[RCri. ARS. 



Xo. 17. liiological Surve_\-. IWrd day in 



the schools. 

 Xo. 77. Biological survey. Xational bird 



ant! mammal reservations in Alaska. 

 Xo. 79. Biological Survey. Onr vanishing 



shore-birds. 

 Xo. 81. Biological Survcv, Three impor- 



tant wikl duck foods. 



X'o. 84. Biological Survey, Distribution 

 of the American egrets. 



Xo. 87. Biological Survey, Xational re- 

 servations for the protection of wild 

 life. 



Y. B. SEPARATES. 



504. Plants useful to attract birds and 

 protect fruit. 



590. Our meadowlarks in relation to agri- 

 culture. 



601. Relation of birds to grain aphides. 



620. The American thrushes valuable 

 bird neighbors. 



642. Our shore-birds and their future. 



Reprint Year-book 1904, The relation of 

 birds to fruit growing in California 



Biological Survey, Bulletin 44, Food of 

 our more important flycatchers. 



The cause of bird protection spreads. 

 With the beginning of this year, impor- 

 tation of wild bird plumage was prohib- 

 ited for the entire Dominion of Canada. 

 Xow comes the report that the law is 

 on against shooting and exporting 

 skins even in such unlikely places as 

 Java and New Guinea. To be sure, 

 this latter prohibition afifects only some 

 districts and some species of birds of 

 paradise ; but prospects are said to be 

 bright for further extensions. 



To Frederick W^ard Putnam, head of 

 the Peabody Museum at Harvard, who 

 died last August at the age of seventy- 

 six, is assigned the credit of inaugura- 

 ting the modern type of scientific col- 

 lecting expedition. Before his time, ex- 

 peditions went out in search of what- 

 ever they could pick up. Nowadays, 

 they start out with a particular prob- 

 lem to solve and bring back to the mu- 

 seum the evidence for the answer. 



Readers of Dr. W. J. Holland's well- 

 known "Butterfly Book," one of the 

 most fresh and charming of all natural 

 history volumes, will welcome his "But- 

 terfly Guide." The new work, unlike the 

 old, is distinctly a "guide book," a vast 

 pocket manual for the identification of 

 255 common species, largely by means 

 of some three hundred remarkably well 

 executed colored pictures. Yet the 

 price is only one dollar. 



The Cardinal. 



A flash of color, a hurst of song, 

 A cardinal has passed along. 



— Emma Peirce. 



