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fully. Our teacher read us a story out of Bird-Lore that one of her pupils 

 wrote last year for the magazine. It certainly is interesting. 



One day we went into Miss W 's room, to have our society together. 



After we finished the program, we played a game called 'Guessing Birds.' 

 Some one would go to the front of the room with a bird pinned on her back and 

 one of the teachers would ask some one in the room a question about the bird. 

 Then they would have to guess the name of the bird. We had lots of fun play- 

 ing this game. Some of the children could not guess the bird that they had on 

 their backs. Then the teacher would take if off and put her hand over the name 

 of the bird and ask if they knew what it was. 



There has not been much snow in Herndon, so the birds can find a good 

 deal of food without anyone feeding them. With our fines we bought some wire 

 and suet. One day we went to the woods not far from the schoolhouse to feed 

 the birds. We tacked the wire on the trees and then put the suet under the 

 wire. It will soon be time to go and put more suet under the wire for the birds. 

 — Geraldine Sager (Aged ii), Herndon, Va. 



[Very often the best way of fostering and keeping up interest in bird-study has to be 

 considered, especially in Junior Audubon Societies or bird clubs. The idea suggested 

 above seems to be an attractive one, for anything in the nature of a game usually appeals 

 to young people. Several bird-games similar to "Avelude" are for sale, but these are 

 played with cards, and are not suitable for use in the schoolroom. They make agreeable 

 recreations for the home, however, and their use may well be encouraged. — A. H. W.] 



II. A BIRD CONTEST FOR BIRD CLUBS 



Place Time Date 



1. A crowned head (answer) Kingbird 



2. An unsteady light (answer) Flicker 



3. An Eastern city visitor (answer) Baltimore Oriole 



4. A yellow conversationaUst (answer) Yellow-breasted Chat 



5. The pride of the farm (answer) Quail 



6. A peace mourner (answer) Mourning Dove 



21. Ruler of the fisheries (answer) Kingfisher 



Name of contestant 



[Space is too limited to print this contest in full, but enough has been given to show 

 how it was carried out. The Nature-Study Club of Indiana engaged in the contest, 

 which was gotten up by one of its leaders, "to afford some amusement for the members 

 while they were enjoying the beauties of nature. It was given under a large, spreading 

 beech, and during the time the members were racking their brains to find the proper 

 name of each feathered creature listed, the calls and notes of many of the birds could be 

 heard all around, seemingly trying to assist the members to recall their names. The trip 

 was a most successful one from a nature-study point of view, as the club traversed 

 beautiful streams, lowlands and hills, and found a variety of trees and plants and many 

 beautiful birds." 



