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3. What is the food of the robin? 



4. What birds are seed eaters ? 



5. Of what importance are the gulls? 



6. What are the bird laws of your state ? 



Special Reports 



1. Reasons for migration. 



2. Some useful birds. 



3. The starling. 



4. The English sparrow. 



5. Thebobwhite. 



References 



Hunter, Essentials of Biology. Chap. XXII. (Birds.) 



Elements of Biology. Chap. XXV. 



Hodge, Nature Study and Life. Chap. XXI. 



Clarkin, F., "Who Killed Cock Robin?" Everybody's Magazine, 

 January, 1910. 



Beal, " Some Common Birds in their Relation to Agriculture." 

 Farmers' Bulletin 54, U. S. Department of Agriculture, 1898. 



Sample, D. H., "The Conservation of the Birds." The Outlook, 

 July 23, 1910. 



Beal, " The Relations between Birds and Insects." Yearbook, Depart- 

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Dearborn, " How to destroy English Sparrows." Farmers' Bulletin 

 383, U. S. Department of Agriculture, 1910. 



Job, H. K., "Triumphs of Bird Protection." Harper's Magazine, 

 July, 1909. 



Walter, H. E., Wild Birds in City Parks. 



Henshaw, "Does it pay the Farmer to Protect Birds?" Yearbook, 

 Department of Agriculture, 1907. 



Job, H. K., How to Study Birds. 



Burba, G. F., Our Bird Friends. 



Lee, R. M., "Keeping Tab on Bobwhite's Enemies." Recreation, 

 April, 1910. 



"The English Sparrow in North America." Bulletin 1, U. S. Depart- 

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Miller, Olive Thome, The Bird, Our Brother. 



Palmer, T. S., "Bird Day in the Schools." Circular 17> U. S. Depart- 

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