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JUNIOR AUDUBON CLASSES. 



Experts believe that the Junior Audubon Class work now so extensive 

 throughout the country is the most important work for bird protection which 

 is being done in any land. Last year the total enrollment throughout the 

 country was 11,935 classes — 261,654 children in all. This is a great in- 

 crease over the numbers enrolled the previous year, and is 50,000 greater 

 than the total enrollment of the whole first four years of the work. The 

 "banner" State last year was New York, with 41,514 children hard at work. 

 Massachusetts materially increased its enrollment, listing 10,802 children. 

 This year, with new sets of leaflets and new opportunities for both teachers 

 and scholars, it is believed that the work will show a still greater increase. 

 The classes are not necessarily confined to school-children and teachers of 

 the public schools. Any person interested in bird work may organize such 

 a class, receive Bird-Lore free, and have the satisfaction of being an active 

 agent in this great educational work. There is an especial opportunity for 

 the conservation committees of women's clubs to take charge of this work 

 in their own localities. Further information in regard to this opportunity 

 may be had by addressing the office of the Massachusetts Audubon Society, 

 66 Newbury Street, Boston. 



FEED THE BIRDS. 



The time of year is at hand when the feeding of our wild birds becomes 

 not only a pleasant avocation, a help to students of bird life, but also a 

 patriotic duty. The past year has shown us all how needful it is that food 

 should be conserved in every possible way. We understand as never before 

 how the farmer or the gardener who works even in a small way is bnefiting 

 the entire country by making two food plants grow where only one grew 

 before. In this work the birds are of great value as assistant gardeners. 

 To conserve our bird life, therefore, is to conserve and increase our food 

 supply. Feeding the birds in winter is effective war work. It should begin 

 right away and be kept up until the warm weather returns. 



Miss Minna B. Hall reports that for two seasons a pair of black duck 

 have bred on her Brookline estate. The place is, of course, a sanctuary, 

 and is especially attractive to birds because of a small marsh-margined 

 pond and a brook on one part of it. This year seven ducklings were 

 hatched there. Pheasants nested there also, and either there or in the im- 

 mediate vicinity were nests of meadowlark, crows, grackles, blue jays, 

 robins and starlings. This is a good example of the value to bird life of 

 even a small sanctuary surrounded by almost urban conditions. 



