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Bird -Lore 



account of which is written by the presi- 

 dent of the class, Miss Ola Moon. 



"We have now," she says, "thirty-two 

 members, and the club meets very other 

 week. We have a feeding-station near the 

 school-house, surrounded by buckberry 

 bushes and trees. We had a special com- 

 mittee to carry the food and water thither 

 whenever it was needed. We also bought 

 a suet-basket and kept it out a part of the 

 winter, and twenty-two of our members 

 have been feeding the birds on their own 

 account. This spring we had fifty-four 

 bird-houses put up, and about thirty of 

 them were occupied. We often went to the 

 woods to see birds, wild flowers, and trees. 

 We have begun a paper called The Horace 

 Mann Bird Star, in which are articles and 

 notes about birds and other interesting 



nest, food, and habits. We correlated with 

 the art-work when the children made pos- 

 ters to announce an exhibit of bird-houses, 

 which the boys had made in their manual 

 training work. Then their bird-boxes 

 afforded another problem for their art and 

 hand-work in planning the covers and 

 designs. The leaves in the book consisted 

 of a drawing of the bird studied, with data 

 collected from personal observation, from 

 the Leaflets and from other sources. Our 

 meetings are held on Wednesday of each 

 week, and we have a twenty-minute pro- 

 gram, consisting of recitations, bird guess- 

 ing contests, reports of field-trips, etc. 

 Our field-trips have been particularly 

 helpful. 



"We have commited to memory Shel- 

 ley's 'Skylark,' 'The Little Sandpiper,' 

 'Birds of Killingworth,' and other short 



JUNIOR AUDUBON CLASS AT HORACE MANN SCHOOL, KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI 



The Class is grouped around the bird-bath built by it in the school-yard, and the cover of 



the Class magazine is shown 



things. We have built a fountain and a 

 bird-bath in the corner of the school-yard 

 near the tree shown in the picture, around 

 which a Virginia creeper is growing. In an 

 elm close by a Robin has its nest. Our 

 club will continue to meet through the 

 summer vacation." 



One of the most serious and busy classes 

 in our list is that of the seventh grade of 

 the schools in Somerville, New Jersey, as 

 appears from the report of its leader. Miss 

 Helen E. Bid well: 



"Our Junior Audubon Society was organ- 

 ized in January, 1915. We began study- 

 ing the winter birds and later took up the 

 Audubon Leaflets, using them for our 

 English work, having first the oral and 

 then a written description of the bird, its 



poems about birds. I have found this 

 Junior study a great stimulus to my Eng- 

 lish work, and hope the interest in the 

 birds will be permanent." 



A similar desire for permanence is 

 expressed by Miss Ida S. Given, in her 

 account of the class at Sutton, West 

 Virginia, which is twice as large as last 

 year and very active. "I feel," she writes, 

 "that the lessons the children get now will 

 be lasting." 



A Widening Influence 



A remarkable influence has been exerted 

 by the Junior Class of the Washington 

 Street School, in Chambersburg, Pennsyl- 



