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Bird- Lore 



HOUSE WREN 



each one selected the bird for which he 

 wished to build, and drew his plans 

 accordingly. In the spring of igo6, these 

 children, in cooperation with the Chicago 

 South Park Board, made several hundred 

 Wren- and Bluebird-houses which were 

 placed in trees in Jackson and Washing- 

 ton Parks. A photograph of the child- 

 ren, each child with his bird-house, about 

 to start for the park, was published in 

 the May, 1906, number of the 'Elemen- 

 tary School Teacher.' A new method of 

 building bird -houses was recently adopted 

 in the clay-work department of this 

 school. The children in the sixth grade 

 modeled them from clay. They made 

 them with concave backs, so that they 

 would fit the trees for which they were 

 intended and could be fastened easily by 

 wires. They were baked a brownish color 

 resembling the trees, as a protection from 

 various enemies. Several of the children 

 wrote the name of the bird they wished 

 for a tenant in sunken letters on the front 

 of their production. One of the finished 

 efforts is so ingenious as to warrant a 

 drawing and description. This house is 



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