This chart shows the proportional amount of food the different 

 birds eat. 



FOOD CHAPT 



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How to Protect the Birds 



Build bird houses, report any violations of the bird laws, watch 

 the cats, punish the blue jays and other harmful birds as the law 

 punishes human beings that take life, never put out poison, arrange 

 drinking and bathing places, girls should never wear birds in their 

 hats, never aid in long imprisonment of wild birds. 



How to Study the Birds 



First learn this quotation: "A bird in the heart is wortn more 

 than a hundred in a notebook." Second: Learn repose. Third: Learn 

 to listen. Fourth: Learn to see. 



To study birds most successfully proceed to a spot frequented by 

 birds with your notebook and if possible a good binocular field glass 

 (eight to ten diameters). Sit quietly and patiently and you will be re- 

 warded by some shy but curious friend. Raise your glasses slowly 

 and take a detailed description, following the notebook outline given 

 in the supplement (a sample of the supplement is shown in appendix). 

 Having obtained this, open this booklet to the color and size key we 

 shall suppose that you have seen unknowingly the Steller's Jay and 



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