comstcx:k] a graded COURSE IN BIRD STUDY 



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Mr. Alfred Emerson, Jr., devised the following plan for teaching 

 third and fourth grade children the habits of common birds. Each 

 pupil gathered one or more nests and mounted each one in a collar box. 

 This box is mounted on stiff cardboard and beside it a colored outline 

 of the species of birds that built it. On the same card was the story 

 written by the child covering the following points. 1 . Name of bird ; 

 2. In what kind of tree or bush and how far from the ground was the 

 nest; 3. Of what was it made; 4. With what was it linal. 5. Where in 

 the tree and how far from the ground was the nest placed; 6. The 

 measure of the width and depth of the nest; 7. The color, the number 

 of eggs laid by this bird and the time of nesting. 



