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I'hiilo hy Georye Carle 

 Bird houses made by boys of Public School No. '>, The Bronx, on the basis of collections 

 sent by the Museum 



Museum Helps Boys to make Bird Houses 



Public School A'O. o, The Bronx 



The collections of birds that the Museum sends out to the public schools liave proved 

 very helpful in the matter of furnishing concrete evidence of the size of birds the boys of 

 Public School 5, The Bronx, decided to build houses for. 



The school has always made much of Audubon's birthday, which comes about the same 

 time of the year as does Arbor Day, and the pupils have taken a lively interest in the fate of 

 the birds that used to be so numerous about the Bronx. Therefore when it was sugf?ested 

 that the boys make bird houses to put up in the yards to coax back some of the wanderers, 

 the notion was taken up enthusiastically. The ^teacher of constructive work in the upper 

 grades sent for the collections of birds as they came to the school and allowed the boys to 

 judge of the size ani appropriateness of the hoases for the various birds. They read in 

 suggested books about the kinds of birds that lived in artificial abodes and searched every- 

 where for facts concerning the nature of their habitat. It was in accordance with these ideas 

 that they built the houses, save that in some the more ambitiou.s put glass whidows in the 

 hope that they might be able to observe the birds actually at work Ijuilding or broofling. 



For the most part the houses were made in hoins out of school ami with tools of the 

 pupil's own. The school, not being provided with a shop, was ill-equipped for the furth(>ranco 

 of any very elaborate work, but the untiring zeal of the instructor made the boys eager to 

 work. The results proved to be extremely creditable and boys that had heretofore shown 

 not much evidence of constructive ability, when once they were laimched on tliis lively 

 problem with a definite, concrete goal, developed remarkable skill and ingenuity. Also 

 it must be said that there came from the work as well a moral develoiiment of which there 

 was good reason to be proud. 



The Jesup Collection a Stimulus for Wood Collections made hy Boys 



Public School No. 150, Brooklyn 



The children are told of things in nature but rarely have the opportimity of .seeing 

 them except through the collections. The class of 5.\ boys were interested in examining the 

 different woods at the Museinn. One boy made a collection of hard woods, wliich the other 

 boys take great pleasure in studying. 



The Mounted Bird .means much in the Ima(;ination of the City Child 



Piil>lic School No. 70, Mfutholtun, Grade 2B 



These little people of the second grade, brought up imder the abnormal conditions of 

 the city, love the birds of the collection. They smooth and pet them, and even ki.ss them 

 when I am not watching. 



The Museum gives Children a Gre.\ter Love for Living Animals 



Public School No. 76, Muuhattau 



As our pupils live within walking distance of the Mu.seum, they go there frequently. 

 The great attraction for the boys are the wonderful Indian collections. For cla.ss use the bird 

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