54 Bird - Lore 



CHALK TALKS 



Stories may be told by teachers or pupils with accompanying illustrations hastily 

 sketched on the blackboard as the story progresses. The following lend themselves 

 readily to this work : 



'The Ugly Duckling,' 'The Daisy and the Lark,' Hans Christian Anderson; 

 'The White Heron,' Sarah Orne Jewett ; 'The White Blackbird,' Guy de Mau- 

 passant ; ' The Crane Express, ' Child World ; ' The Crow and the Pitcher, ' ' The 

 Fox and the Crane,' 'The Crane and the Crows,' ^sop's Fables. 



FOR READING OR RECITATION 



'Nest Egg,' Robert Louis Stevenson; 'Anxiety,' George Macdonald ; 'The Song 

 Sparrow, ' ' The Veery, ' Dr. van Dyke ; ' The One in the Middle, ' Margaret Eytinge ; 

 'The Bluebird,' Emily Huntington Miller; 'The Peter Bird,' Henry Thompson 

 Stanton; 'The Robin,' Celia Thaxter ; 'Brother Robin,' Mrs. Anderson; 'The Birds' 

 Orchestra,' Celia Thaxter; 'The Sandpiper,' Celia Thaxter; 'Little Birdies, ' Tenny- 

 son ; ' The Brown Thrush, ' Lucy Larcom ; ' The Titmouse, ' Emerson ; ' The Stormy 

 Petrel,' Barry Cornwall; 'The Sorrowful Sea Gull,' Child World; 'Robert of 

 Lincoln,' 'The Return of the Birds,' Bryant; 'The Blackbird,' Alice Cary ; 'The 

 Crow's Children,' 'The Chicken's Mistake,' Phoebe Cary; 'What the Birds Said,' 

 Whittier. 



Migration Tables for April and May 



AT our request, Dr. A. K. Fisher has furnished the following notes 

 on the spring migration. They are based on fifteen years' 

 observation and will therefore prove valuable as a guide, and 

 interesting for comparison, to other observers. A list of Mississippi 

 Valley migrants, which we expected to receive, unfortunately arrived 

 too late for publication, while a list from Philadelphia, by Mr. Wit- 

 mer Stone, is necessaril}^ omitted for lack of space. — Ed. 



AVERAGE DATES OF ARRIVAL OF THE COMMONER BIRDS AT 



SING SING, N. v., DURING APRIL AND MAY 



by dr. a. k. fisher 



April i to io 

 Pied-billed Grebe, Wilson's Snipe, Sparrow Hawk, Osprey, Kingfisher, Fish Crow, 

 Cowbird, Savanna Sparrow, Vesper Sparrow, Swamp Sparrow, White-throated Spar- 

 row, Tree Swallow. 



April io to 20 



Green Heron, Black-crowned Night Heron, American Bittern, Pigeon Hawk, Yel- 

 low-bellied Sapsucker, Purple Finch, Chipping Sparrow, Field Sparrow, Myrtle Warbler, 

 Yellow Palm Warbler, Large-billed Water Thrush, Ruby-crowned Kinglet, Hermit 



Thrush. 



April 20 to 30 



Chimney Swift, Least Flycatcher, Towhee, Purple Martin, Barn Swallow, Bank 



Swallow, Blue-headed Vireo, Black and White Warbler, Catbird, Brown Thrasher, 



House Wren, Wood Thrush. 



