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THE NATURE STUDY COURSE. 



group of inspectorates are obvious. Interest is heightened and 

 maintained, and means of testing the accuracy of the observa- 

 tions can be devised. Of course the phenologies need not be 

 confined to birds. In the Nova Scotia registers one hundred 

 items are listed, only eighteen of which relate to birds. 



A Bird-Phenology of Wellington County. — The Ontario 

 Natural Science Bulletin, Guelph, 1905, pp. 21-24, gives a 

 migration table for 1904 of the birds of Wellington County 

 by the Field Naturalists' Club. It lists 138 birds under 

 the following headings: — 



The same number of the Bulletin gives Mr. Klugh's list of 

 197 birds of Wellington County. Reports like these are 

 useful to teachers for comparison with their own records. 



It may be assumed that birds have been observed inci- 

 dentally and sympathetically (pp. 12, 77), and that later there 

 have been systematic studies of the hen, duck, pigeon, or 

 other fowl that can be brought to the school-room in an 

 observation crate, as well as of the robin, sparrow, or other 

 half-tame birds, and possibly pet cage-birds. Pupils are now 

 prepared for comparative studies of structure, based on the 

 forms and adaptations of bills, feet, nests, colors and wings. 

 A bird's skin or a stuffed bird is needed for reference and 

 to learn the names of the chief regions of the bird's body. 

 Birds are not to be killed to furnish Nature Study subjects. 

 "If thou hast named all the birds without a gun . . . 

 then be my friend." But whenever opportunity supplies the 

 material, observations should be made and recorded. Children 

 frequently find recently killed birds; these they may be 



