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Year's bird-walk derive sufficient impetus from it to assure the interest of their 

 pupils for the rest of the year. Of course, this is the period of school vacation, 

 but for just that reason the children are freer to spend more time in the field. 

 A school or class competition can be inaugurated to find the most winter birds, 

 either in a single day or during the entire vacation. The combined lists of all 

 will then form the start for a school bird calendar (see Bird-Lore, March, 

 1920) which will maintain interest until the summer vacation. 



For the benefit of any who cannot get out into the woods and fields them- 

 selves, or for those who wish to refresh their memories or those of their school 

 children on the winter birds and where to look for them, the Editor of this 

 department of Bird-Lore will outline the bird-walk which he, himself, takes 

 each Christmas or New Year's Day. The birds which he sees in central New 

 New York state will not be exactly the same as those which his friends in the 

 South or West will see; there will even be some differences in the Middle West, 

 but the winter birds are remarkably uniform throughout the northern states, 

 varying chiefly in relative abundance. — A. A. A. 



A CHRISTMAS V\^ALK WITH BIRDS 



It is a gray morning, the day after Christmas. Ever so lightly the feathery] 

 snow crystals drift downward and falter as they meet the branches of th( 

 mulberry tree by the window. But it is cold; they do not cling to the branches,! 

 but sift down to join their fellows in a quilt inches deep on the lawn and on the' 



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"MERRY CHRISTMAS, MR. CHICKADEE" 

 Photographed by A. A. AUep 



