The Audubon Societies 



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The boy with a bird-house in the center 

 of the front row is a prize-winner; the two 

 at his right discovered and carefully 

 guarded an Oven-bird's nest containing 

 four eggs, enthusiastically conducted their 

 teacher to the sacred spot and, later, 

 chose to escort the president of our city 

 bird-club to see their favorite resort and 

 introduce him to their adopted family, 

 rather than to attend an anticipated 

 party at which ice-cream and cake were 

 to be served." 



The picture reproduced on page 229 is 

 also a product of New England enterprise. 



"This class, which was organized last 

 February, and has a membership of 18, 

 meets twice a month. When the roll is 

 called each member answers with the 

 name of a bird he knows in plumage and 

 song. The president has requested every 

 member to make a written report of some 

 bird observed, to be handed in by May 

 and giving an account of the nest, care 

 of young, food and plumage. Out of the 

 material we have received from the 

 Department of Agriculture, the birds 

 in our locality have been selected first 

 from the ten; but we intend to study 

 others known to some of the children. 



YOUNG BIRD-LOVERS AT FISHER. AMONG THE LOUISIANA PINES 



representing Miss Eliza G. Goldsmith's 

 class, in Grade IV, of the George A. Priest 

 School of Manchester-by-the-Sea. It is 

 evident that these pupils are about to spend 

 a few of the most delightful moments of 

 the school-week. 



Experiences in the Gulf States 



Next we spring a thousand miles down 

 the coast, and get a report from the High 

 School at Ruston, Louisiana, where the 

 third-grade group pictured have formed a 

 wide-awake society under the leadership 

 of Miss Blanche Heard, who speaks of her 

 charge as f oUows : 



Each member selects a certain point or 

 paragraph from the pamphlet, and adds 

 to it any experience of his or her own 

 that he or she thinks most interesting. 

 Several pieces of poetry have been learned, 

 one about the Meadowlark, and another 

 'The Bird's Nest.' The field-trips are 

 more interesting to this class, although 

 they do show a great deal of enthusiasm 

 in the reading and memorizing of the 

 poetry about the birds. But to see the 

 birds and hear the song is, to them, so 

 real. We have in view many more field- 

 trips. Several of the boys are making 

 bird-boxes, but only two have completed 

 theirs. The picture exhibits what an 

 eight -year -old boy and a nine-year-old 

 boy can do with rough materials and few 

 tools. It is good for the boys as well as 

 for the birds." 



