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not few of them professionals in bird study, have come and have expressed 

 themselves as more than satisfied. Two hundred school children visited 

 Birdcraft Museum on Arbor and Bird Day alone. 



The work of making this little museum was so absorbing that the 

 three months spent upon it passed as only one (at first it seemed that many 

 seasons must pass before we could make a showing), but having obtained 

 from the State Fish and Game Commission the necessary permit to maintain 

 a Museum, we begged absolutely without shame, and received such generous 

 response from Dr. Jonathan Dwight, Jr., Mr. William Brewster, and The 



A WINTER FEEDING STATION 



Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, that there was no need for 

 delay. 



Of course there were some difficulties. Having arranged for five picture 

 cases — Winter, Early Spring blending into Summer, Summer, Autumn on the 

 Shore, and Autumn in the Uplands, — the greatest difficulty was to have the 

 painting done according to the scenes as we knew them, and that shone so 

 plainly in the mind's eye. Also, it was not easy to make foreground meet the 

 pictured background in shallow cases of only two feet in depth. 



A mural decorator of some experience painted the shore view with spirit 

 and depth, but failed entirely to grasp the colors of New England summer 

 fields, rendering them in the Paris green hues, used by certain impression- 

 ists as a background for pink sheep. Then, like true New Englanders, we fell 

 back upon our resources, and one of the Governors with the instinct of color, 

 came to our rescue, and accomplished Winter, Summer, and Autumn in the 

 Uplands. So competent a critic as Mr. Chapman has selected Winter for 

 reproduction here, as he feels that it is truly representative of the desired con- 



