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Bird -Lore 



by Ihc coiiils lluiL they will let the Robins 

 alone hereafter, lest something worse hap- 

 pen to them. 



Bird-Study in Michigan 



Most of the universities and larger col- 

 leges maintain summer schools at which 

 biology is taught in a more or less practical 

 way, and these often afford excellent local 

 opportunities to bird-students. One of the 

 most notable of these vacation courses is 

 that to be had at the Biological Station of 



A KKD-HKAnED WOODPKC KER 



Photographed by Alice H. Olds, Decatur, 111. 



Fifth prize in this year's contest. 



the University of Michigan. This is 

 situated in Cheboygan County, Michigan, 

 between two lakes in a wild country, where 

 nature is little affected by civilization. 

 The course is in charge of Professor M. M. 

 Ellis, of the University of Colorado, and is 

 conducted mainly by field-work, with the 

 advantage of opportunities for instruc- 

 tion in other branches of natural history. 

 Full particulars may be obtained from the 

 Secretary of the University, at Ann Arbor, 

 Michigan. 



The New "Blue Bird" 



The Blue Bird magazine, which was 

 founded and edited for several years by 

 Doctor Eugene Swope, of Cincinnati, has 

 passed into the hands of Mrs. Elizabeth 



C. T. Miller, President of the Cleveland 

 Bird -lovers' Association. Three issues 

 have appeared under its new management, 

 and the high standard that is being main- 

 tained is sufiicient to explain its continued 

 success. We bespeak for it the heartiest 

 support of bird-lovers everywhere. 



Bits of Cheering News 



Mr. Henry Caesar and some other mem- 

 bers and friends of the National Associa- 

 tion, purposing to organize a bird-club 

 at Rumson, New York, where they have 

 summer residences, prepared the way by 

 sending all over that neighborhood a no- 

 tice of this intention, and instructions as 

 to initting up bird-houses early in the 

 spring, in advance of the assembling of the 

 families of summer residents. This fore- 

 handed cxam]>le is worth following. 



'I'he Natural History Society of liarris- 

 l)iirg, Pennsylvania, has on hand a bird- 

 house contest, partly open to everybody' 

 in that city and vicinity, and partly con- 

 lined to school-children. Prizes are offered : 

 (i) ten dollars in gold for the most bird- 

 houses occupied by birds other than Eng- 

 lish Sparrows; (2) a silver cup to the school 

 producing the best essay from personal 

 observation by a pupil; (3) a silver cup for 

 the best-constructed bird-house. 



The people of Buck Hill Falls, Pennsyl- 

 vania, have made a bird-sanctuary in their 

 village, and have arranged to have a 'Bird 

 Week' annually. This year, April 17 to 24 

 was set apart as "a restful period, with 

 opportunities of getting acquainted with 

 our feathered protectors and the early 

 spring flowers, and of seeing Nature in 

 her great transforming act." 



Mr. Rufus Stanley has been conducting 

 an elaborate system of reports on bird 

 observation from school-children, in Che- 

 mung County, New York, which has 

 aroused strong local interest. The Star- 

 Gazette of Elmira ofifered a long list of cash- 

 prizes in a bird-house contest, and a sur- 

 prising number of good boxes resulted. 



