152 NATURE STUDY 



reline the nest, from which men have stolen the soft 

 down. 



Ostrich feathers, the ostrich, and ostrich farming make 

 interesting lessons. 



LITERATURE 



The Readers are full of accounts of all the birds here mentioned. 



Why the Crow is Black, Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. 



Legend of the Woodpecker, Cooke's Nature Myths. 



A Legend of the Northland (The Woodpecker), Phoebe Gary. 



The Crow's Children, Phoebe Gary. 



The Owl, Tennyson. 



