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meetings, and planning for bird-study 

 and bird-protection. Only workers can be 

 in this class, and the members themselves 

 made a rule that three unexcused absences 

 from meetings cause one to lose his or 

 her membership. 



"During the past winter we studied 

 habits and characteristics of birds, so 

 that as the spring came we might appre- 

 ciate and help them. Our meetings are 

 held once a week after school at the school- 

 house, and once a month in the evening 

 at the home of a member. Miss Eddy, 



three distinct Junior Audubon classes 

 have been organized in School No. ii in 

 that city; and they now have a combined 

 membership of more than one hundred 

 pupils. 



"Meetings are held regularly, in which 

 bird-charts are kept, recording the time 

 and place of birds first seen. Family 

 characteristics are studied; also the habits, 

 nests, food, etc., of individual birds, with 

 particular stress on their usefulness. Ways 

 and means of attracting bird-neighbors 

 are discussed. Many bird-houses have 



BOYS OF JUNIOR AUDUBON CLASS, No. 732, AT FLINT, MICHIGAN 



another high-school teacher, is a member, 

 and helps with the work. We all plan to 

 take early-morning walks together soon, 

 and all look forward with much pleasure 

 to them. Some of the most enjoyable 

 events of my life have been with young 

 people out in the field, watching bird- 

 life and listening to bird-music." 



The Class in Flint, Michigan, is so 

 large that it required two pictures to 

 carry all the portraits; the one printed 

 shows that the Flint boys and girls, led 

 by G. E. Sherman, are ingenious archi- 

 tects "in the small," as artists say. 



Passaic, New Jersey, is evidently an 

 Audubonian stronghold, for we learn that 



been built, with quite as much diversity 

 as to size and architecture as may be 

 seen in human habitations. Mr. Kip, of 

 Passaic, has given the boys and girls 

 permission to use a ten-acre wood-lot 

 for their bird-houses. The principal of 

 the school purposes to have each of the 

 twelve school-rooms put up a bird-house 

 in the trees on the school-grounds. The 

 American Museum of Natural History, 

 in New York City, has loaned the school 

 specimens of birds to be found in the 

 neighborhood. Altogether, much interest 

 has been manifested; and field-trips will 

 be undertaken when the weather 

 permits." 



This school enjoys special advantages 

 of situation for bird-study. 



