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selected such a vantage-place, that you choose four birds for close study and 

 keep daily records of what you learn about them. I think the Robin, English 

 Sparrow, Crow, and Downy Woodpecker might be a very profitable group to 

 study. Will you try to answer the following questions so far as possible from 

 your own observations? 



1. How many relatives, belonging to I he same family, of each of these species, can you 

 name? 



2. Which bird has the largest number of relatives? Which the fewest? 



3. What food do these birds chiefly eat during the fall? Is it the same kind of food 

 that they eat at other seasons of the year? 



4. Will they all remain after cold weather sets in? 



5. Where do they spend the night? In the same places as at other times of the year? 



6. Are they sociable or solitary in their habits? 



If you set about discovering the answers to these questions gladly and with a 

 desire to find out all you can by using your own eyes, you will have learned Thoreau's 

 secret and Audubon's secret, and part of the birds' secrets. 



A. H. W. 



MRS. NIGHTHAWK IS DOWN NEAR THE LOWER EDGE OF THIS PICTURE. HER 

 TWO BABIES SHOW JUST IN FRONT OF HER BREAST. IT WAS VERY HOT, AND I 

 THINK SHE KEPT THEM THERE BECAUSE IT WAS COOLER. 



