THE HOME SURROUNDINGS 115 



BIRDS ABOUT OUR HOMES 1 



1. Make a list of ten birds that are so well known to you 

 that you recognize them and can name them at sight. 



2. Name the several particulars in which these birds of 

 your list are alike those features of build, covering, ac- 

 tivities, and manner of life that are common to all. In what 

 respects do they all differ from domestic fowls such as the hen ? 



3. Tell what there is characteristic of any four of the 

 birds named whereby you identify them. (Include details 

 of their nesting, rearing of young, migrations, relations to 

 men and to other birds, their songs, and the differences in 

 plumage of male and female.) 



4. Make another list of birds known to be more or less 

 common in your neighborhood but not recognized by you 

 at sight with certainty. Underscore the names of any in this 

 list that you think you might be able to call by name if 

 you should see them. 



5. Select one bird from your first list and write a brief 

 description of it, setting forth its characteristics in a way 

 that would materially assist another person in recognizing 

 the bird. 



6. Make another list of birds whose names are familiar 

 but which you would not recognize at sight. Group these 

 names into (a) those of the region where you live ; (b) those 

 of foreign parts. 



Two weeks before the close of this work in General Science hand in 

 a list of the birds that you have learned to know between now and then, 

 telling when and where you have seen them, and upon what they seemed 



to feed. 



1 See footnote of lesson on Temperature Records. 



