330 Bird -Lore 



Huxley: A Piece of Chalk (lecture to Enj^lish Workingmcn, a model for a popular 



talk). 

 Forbush, E. H.: Shore- and Water-Birds Seen Along the Coast of New I^ngland in 

 July (a description of various tours of investigation along the coast and neighbor- 

 ing islands of New England, illustrated with slides). 

 Murphy, R. C: Some Problems of Antarctic Bird- Life (a presentation of data gathered 

 in the South Atlantic on an expedition to South Georgia, with reference to specific 

 problems of distribution, habits, and abundance, illustrated with slides). 

 Lowell, J. R.: My Garden Acquaintance. 

 Burroughs: Birds and Bees. 

 Thoreau: Camping in the Maine Woods. 



The Succession of Forest Trees and Wild Apples. 

 Finley: Little Bird Blue. 

 Mills: The Story of a Thousand- Year Pine. 



Simple outlines of study devoted to a correlated treatment of birds, vegetation, and 

 insects. 



School-room charts of limited areas made by the pupils, to show the character and 

 abundance of bird-life around the building, the placing of feeding-counters, nesting- 

 boxes, and drinking-fountains, with a tabulated record of the birds visiting each. 

 A collection of common weed-seeds made by the pupils. 

 A collection of insects made by the pupils. 



Many other books and lectures might be mentioned, of great value and interest. 

 It is well to form the habit of 'discovering' a new lecture, book, or leaflet each month. 

 —A. H. W. 



JUNIOR AUDUBON WORK 

 For Teachers and Pupils 



Exercise XXIX: Correlated with Joy and Knowledge. 



"To traverse the paths day by day, and week by week; to keep an eye ever on the 

 fields from year's end to year's end, is the one only method of knowing what really is 

 in, or comes to them. . . . The richest locality may be apparently devoid of interest 

 just at the juncture of a chance visit." — From "Nature Near London," by Richard 

 Jeffries. 



"Mr. Thoreau dedicated his genius with such entire love to the fields, hills and waters 

 of his native town that he made them known and interesting to all reading Americans, 

 and to people over the sea. . . . One of the weapons he used, more important than 

 microscope or alcohol-receiver to other investigators, was a whim which grew on him 

 by indulgence, yet appeared in gravest statement, namely, of extolling his own town 

 and neighborhood as the most favored center for natural observation. He remarked 

 that the flora of Massachusetts embraced almost all the important plants of America — 

 most of the oaks, most of the willows, the best pines, the ash, the maple, the beech, the 

 nuts. . . ." 



"The other weapon with which he conquered all obstacles in science was patience. 

 He knew how to sit immovable — a part of the rock he rested on — until the bird, the 

 reptile, the fish, which had retired from him, should come back and resume its habits — 

 nay, moved by curiosity, should come to him and watch him." 



