2 QUESTIONS ON CHAPTER I. 



oil the food of the Chickadee. AVhat was found in the 

 stomach of a Yellow-billed Cuckoo ? Of a Eobin ? Are 

 most Hawks and Owls beneficial birds ? What forms the 

 largest part of the food of the Eed-shouldered Hawk ? 

 What was found in the castings * of the Barn Owl ? What 

 State offered a reward for Hawks and Owls ? What loss is 

 estimated to have resulted ? Wh\' are seed-eating birds of 

 economic value ? What birds are useful as scavengers ? 

 What was the result of killing birds on the Yucatan 

 Coast ? t 



JEsthetic Relations of Birds to Mem (see Chapter I, 

 pages 10-13). — After learning to know birds, what aesthetic 

 characters shall we find that they possess ? Mention several 

 birds of beautiful plumage. Several of unusually graceful 

 flight. Several musical birds. What human traits of 

 character are exhibited by birds ? What pleasure is to be 

 derived from acquaintance with birds ? Is their study re- 

 stricted to any special season ? In what manner will birds 

 appeal to us most strongly ? 



Does familiarity with their notes increase the pleasure we 

 receive from birds ? Is this the result of association ? In 

 what manner ? 



* Undigested pellets of hair, feathers, and bones, which are 

 ejected at the mouth by Owls and some other birds. 



f The lesson may be extended by exhibiting plates of, and de- 

 scribing the food of, some of our most useful birds, such as the 

 Swallows (Plate I), Herring .Gull (Plate IV), Turkey Vulture 

 (Plate LXXVIII), Red-shouldered Hawk (Plate XIV), Marsh 

 Hawk (Plate XV), Sparrow Hawk (Plate XVI), Short-eared Owl 

 (Plate XIX), Screech Owl (Plate XX), Barred Owl (Plate XXI), 

 Yellow-billed Cuckoo (Plate XXII), Downy Woodpecker (Plate 

 XXIV), Flicker (Plate XXVI), Xighthawk and Whip-poor-will 

 (Plate XXVII), Kingbird (Plate XXX), Cedar Waxwing (Plate 

 LVII), Vireos (Plate LIX), Chickadee and Brown Creeper (Plate 

 LXX), and Nuthatches (Plate LXXI). 



