APPENDIX 221 



Study Audubon, Wilson, Burroughs, Emerson, Tho- 

 reau, Frank M. Chapman, Torrey, Coues, Olive Thorne 

 Miller, and others, and bird pictures, and consult Chapman's 

 Handbook of Birds and Bird Life. 



Study skill in the use of the field-camera. Note the 

 advice in Chapman's Bird Studies with a Camera. Let your 

 motto be the " protection of birds." It stands for education, 

 for justice in all things; it teaches the true lesson of all life. 



Be able to name each bird that cleaves the air, and to 

 relate some story about it. Have field-classes after the 

 manner of the class established by the girls of Smith Col- 

 lege, Northampton, Massachusetts. This method is not 

 only heart education; it is health. It puts true love of 

 nature into life. 



Let your club describe the birds that stay in winter, 

 and in the spring and summer let it study the birds as 

 they come from the South. 



Have bird-calendars, and sit down in some woody place 

 betimes, and wait for the birds to come. 



Watch the birds as they build their nests. Photograph 

 them, and put these photographs of their habits on the club- 

 room walls. 



Fill the club-room with pictures, collected and original. 

 Have an Audubon portrait, if you can. 



In regard to recitations, study the poetry of Wilson, 

 and the collections of poems on birds. Wilson was the 

 true bird-poet. 



We submit a few selections of poems from sympathetic 

 authors, at the end of this Appendix, which teach the pro- 

 tection of birds, and which may be used in young people's 

 societies. 



