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Whatever the means and wherever the o])i)ortunity, teach the children 

 how to work as they play, and j»rown-ups to play as they work, and let Nature 

 come to the rescue of our strenuous lives with the elixir of the true vacation 

 spirit.— A. H. W. 



FOR TEACHERS AND PUPILS 



Exercise IV. Summer Neighbors, continued 



Correlated Studies : Geography and Arithmetic 



Taking up the Order of Perching Birds, which far exceeds any other order 

 in the number of species which it contains, we find that to it belong the majority 

 of all land-birds. By following the numerical scheme outlined in Exercise III, 

 we may see at a glance the relative size of the families that make up this 

 large group. 



Order XVII. — Perching Birds. 



[As represented in North America, A. O. U. Check-List, 1910.] 



Number of species 



Name of family 



Suborder I — Clamatorcs or 

 Songless Birds 



[Cotinga] 

 Kingbird. 



1. Cotingas. . . . 



2. Flycatchers. 



Suborder II — Oscines or Sing- 

 ing Birds 



Horned Lark 



Crow 



Starling. 

 Cowbird . 



Song Si)arro\v 7. 



Scarlet Tanager , 8, 



Barn Swallow 9. 



Cedar W'axwing 10. 



[Phainopcpla] 11, 



Northern Shrike 12, 



Red-eyed Vireo 13. 



[Bahama Honey-Creeper] . 14. 



Redstart 15, 



(Pipit) 16, 



(Dipper) 17, 



Brown Thrasher 18. 



House Wren 19. 



Brown Creeper 20, 



(White-breastedNut-halch) 21. 



(Chickadee) 22. 



(Wren-Tit) 23, 



Ruby-crowned Kinglet ... 24. 



Robin 25. 



Larks 



Crows, Jays, Ravens and Mag- 

 pies 



Starlings 



Blackbirds, Orioles, Crackles, 

 etc 



Grosbeaks, Finches, Sparrows, 

 etc 



Tanagers 



Swallows 



Wax wings 



Silky Flycatchers 



Shrikes 



Vireos 



Honey-Creepers 



Wood Warblers 



Wagtails 



Dippers 



Thrashers, Mockingbirds, etc. 



Wrens 



Creepers 



Nuthatches 



Chickadee 



Wren-Tits 



Kinglets, Gnatcatchers, etc . . . 



Thrushes, Robins, Bluebirds, 

 etc 



No. of I No. of 

 genera I species 



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No. of 

 sub- 



NOTE. — Of the number of species and subspecies noted, the following are extraliraital reckoned in the 

 order of the families given, i, 6, o, 6, o, 3, 9, o, 3, o, o, o, 2, o, 2, 3, 1, i, 2, i, o, 2, o, o, 2. 



