Ci)e Audubon JSocteties 



SCHOOL DEPARTMENT 



Edited by MABEL OSGOOD WRIGHT 

 Address all communications to the Editor of the School Department, National 

 Association of Audubon Societies, 141 Broadway, New York City 



Bird Houses and School Children 



OUR Northwest field agent, Mr. Finley, writes: "We have a great deal 

 of interest in bird study worked up in various schools about the state. 

 Wherever there is a manual training department, they are making many 

 bird-houses. Superintendent Alderman at Eugene writes that they are making 

 Eugene a bird city. The school children are arranging for a bird day a little 



MANUAL TRAINING CLASS AT WORK ON BIRD HOUSES, PORTLAND. OREGON 

 PUBLIC SCHOOLS. Photograph by H. T. Bohlman 



later and they have bird-houses up in every tree and back yard in the town. At 

 the recent annual exhibit of school work, they had 443 bird-houses on display. 

 We have an exhibition of bird-houses now in Portland that were made by the 

 children of the manual training department here. It is attracting much attention. 

 " We are doing considerable bird work in the schools by getting the children 

 to make observations in the field and write compositions on the various phases 



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