280 BIRD FRIENDS 



As an introduction to bird-study sometimes it may 

 be possible to keep a pet canary in the schoolroom 

 for a few days. 



Pictures. There is a substitute for mounted birds 

 that can be used, which serves the purpose excep- 

 tionally well, namely, colored pictures. Very good 

 pictures can now be obtained from the following 

 sources : 



National Association of Audubon Societies, 1974 

 Broadway, New York City. About ninety pictures 

 have been published, to which six are being added 

 each year. The price is two cents apiece, including, 

 besides the picture, an outline drawing and a four- 

 page pamphlet descriptive of the bird's habits. 



G. P. Browne Company, Beverly, Massachusetts. 

 About three hundred and fifty pictures have been 

 published. The price is two cents each. These may 

 be obtained on light-weight mounts for four cents 

 each. 



Liberty Bell Bird Club, "Farm Journal," Phila- 

 delphia. Twenty pictures have been published and 

 are sold at two cents each. 



Massachusetts Audubon Society, 66 Newbury 

 Street, Boston. This Society sells pictures mounted 

 as charts. There are three charts known as the 

 Audubon Bird Charts, twenty-seven by forty-two 

 inches, arranged so that they can be hung in the 

 schoolroom. Charts numbers 1 and 2 each contain 

 twenty-six common birds, and Chart number 3, 



