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this, and some wholesome aid has been given to interesting the people in find- 

 ing the birds. 



Miss Hale in her Introductory Science Classes has planned extra work for 

 credit in recognizing and keeping records of birds and bird migrations. Several 

 have started records of this kind. I hope that the stories and records of this 

 work will be worth sending to you later. — Israel R. Sheldon, Principal, 

 Westerly High School, Westerly, R. I. 



BIRD CONSERVATION IN CEMETERIES AND PARKS 



Bird- lovers generally are beginning to realize what wonderful opportunities 

 for bird conservation are to be found in our city cemeteries and, possibly, even 

 in the small city parks, wherever the vagrant cat problem is not too much 



neglected. Philadelphia, with the 

 largest natural park in the world, 

 has just decided to utilize the 

 wonderful resources for increasing 

 the bird-life about the city, a very 

 necessary consideration with all 

 the added vegetable - gardens 

 under cultivation this year. In- 

 secticides are necessary and help- 

 ful, but the best insect-destroy- 

 ers of all do not come in bottles 

 or packages, but in nests and bird- 

 boxes. 



Under the encouragement of 

 Mrs. W. Hersey Thomas, a stu- 

 dent of birds and insect life, the 

 children in the Friends' Schools 

 of Philadelphia and Germantown 

 have this past spring made a 

 number of Bluebird and Wren- 

 boxes, and, with the cooperation 

 of the Park Commission, forty of 

 these boxes have already been 

 erected in Fairmount Park, about 

 Chamounix, and on the upper 

 part of Lincoln Drive. More 

 will follow next year. Feeding-stations for winter care of the birds will 

 soon be put up, and bird-patrols among the school-children will look after 

 them. 



This movement, if consistently developed, should succeed in increasing the 



THE GIRARD AVENUE JUNIOR 

 AUDUBON SOCIETY 



