122 Bird -Lore 



From Marion, Virginia, comes a detailed census of the birds found in the 

 surrounding county during the spring migration. Space is not available for 

 printing in full this census, which includes some ninety odd species, but the 

 method followed, as explained by the following communication, is of interest, 

 and should prove helpful to students in other localities. "The Woman's Club 

 of Marion has an organized Audubon Society of sixty pupils and four teachers. 

 The three Junior classes are taught once a week from the Audubon leaflets. 

 The Senior Class has helped take the census of Smythe County under the guid- 

 ance of its teacher. In sixteen field lessons, ninety-four species and eighteen 

 hundred and sixty-three birds of these species have been seen." 



It should be added that these Audubon classes work together with the 

 Woman's Club and the Conservation Committee of Marion, thus fostering a 

 civic interest in bird-life among young and old. If more clubs would interest 

 themselves in organizing work of this kind, a great deal might be learned 

 about the local occurrence and movements of birds which would be of use in 

 following their migrations. — A. H. W. 



SUGGESTIONS 



1. Compare the methods of observation of Thoreau, Lanier and the author of the 

 jungle quotations. 



2. Which author seems to know Nature best? 



3. Do you know the trees in your neighborhood as well as Thoreau did those about 

 Concord and Walden Pond? 



4. How many separate things in Nature are enumerated by Lanier in the excerpt 

 from "The Symphony?" 



5. Are you familiar with these things? 



6. What is miniver? 



7. How did Thoreau learn so much about Nature? 



8. Are Lanier's allusions to Nature exact? 



9. If you wished to tell a person who knew nothing about Nature, what to listen and 

 look for, how many things could you name or describe to him? 



10. Make a list of the trees, shrubs, and plants in your neighborhood. 



11. Make a list of the spring migrants in your locality. 



12. Make a study of what actually takes place during the transition from winter to 

 spring. — A. H. W. 



FOR AND FROM ADULT AND YOUNG 

 OBSERVERS 



SPRING 



Spring has come at last, The rustle of their little wings 



And the birds are flying fast Tells us of the coming Spring. 



To our great Northern skies. And their little notes of love 



Where they think it's paradise. Are hke the peaceful songs of Doves. 



— Virginia Stearns (Nine years old), Milwaukee, Wis. 



