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Bird - Lore 



Parula Warbler 



Cape May Warbler 



Yellow Warbler 



Black-throated Blue War- 

 bler 



Myrtle Warbler 



Bay-breasted Warbler 



Blackburnian Warbler 



Black-poll Warbler 



Palm Warbler 



Oven-bird 



Water-Thrush 



Black-throated Green War- 

 bler 



Maryland Yellow-throat 



Yellow-breasted Chat 



Hooded Warbler 



Wilson Warbler 



Canadian Warbler 



Redstart 



Mockingbird 



Catbird 



Brown Thrasher 



Carolina Wren 



House Wren 



Winter Wren 



Brown Creeper 



White-breasted Nuthatch 



Red-breasted Nuthatch 



Tufted Titmouse 



Black-capped Chickadee 



Golden-crowned Kinglet 



Ruby-crowned Kinglet 



Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 



Wood Thrush 



Olive-backed Thrush 



Hermit Thrush 



Robin 



Bluebird 



Whip-poor-will and Chest- 

 nut-sided Warblers heard 

 but not seen. 



This list represents the kind of bird-work which hundreds of people are 

 doing, for their own pleasure and profit. It is a good kind of work to do, but 

 may be bettered in one way, namely, by working in connection with others. 



For example, if the bird-lovers in each town, city or village would put their 

 lists together and combine them with the lists of other observers all over their 

 state, these state-lists could be put into the hands of an expert, who would be 

 able to gather considerable valuable data from them, which he, in turn, might 

 send to the head of the Bird-migration Bureau, Prof. Wells W. Cooke, at 

 Washington, D. C. 



Our schools would do best to get information about the birds which are 

 now given each month in Bird-Lore; for definite data about a few well-known 

 species is worth far more than indefinite data about many doubtful species. 

 By learning how to get together a few facts each year about any single species 

 of bird, plant, insect, or other organism, one may become trained to look for 

 the essential and important facts of life, instead of groping around, in a maze, 

 without any clue to the meaning of what is seen and heard. 



In bird-study, as in everything else, a few things well done count for 

 more than many things half done. 



To sum up this exercise in a few lines: There are two great laws which con- 

 trol every organism, namely, food-getting (nutrition), and life-giving (^repro- 

 duction); the variety of living forms is everywhere apparent; the value of life 

 may be learned, but what life is no one yet knows; in studying life, have a 

 method, whatever the forms studied, and finally whenever possible cooperate 

 with others, at least in bird-study. 



SUGGESTIONS 



1. Why do poets use adjectives so much more truly than the averasce person? Is it 

 because they see things more correctly? Notice the adjectives in selection from Lowell. 



2. How many kinds of flowers, birds, insects, trees, fishes and other living forms do 

 you know? Make a list of them. 



3. In how many different ways are nests made by birds? 



