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Whatever the means and wherever the opportunity, teach the children 

 how to work as they play, and grown-ups to play as they work, and let Nature 

 come to the rescue of our strenuous lives with the elixir of the true vacation 

 spirit.— A. H. W. 



FOR TEACHERS AND PUPILS 



Exercise IV. Summer Neighbors, continued 



Correlated Studies : Geography and Arithmetic 



Taking up the Order of Perching Birds, which far exceeds any other order 



in the number of species which it contains, we find that to it belong the majority 



of all land-birds. By following the numerical scheme outlined in Exercise III, 



we may see at a glance the relative size of the families that make up this 



large group. 



Order XVII. — Perching Birds. 



[As represented in North America, A. O. U. Ctieck-List, 1910.] 



Number of species 



Suborder I — Clamatores 

 Songless Birds 



[Cotinga] 



Kingbird 



Suborder II — Oscines or Sing- 

 ing Birds 



Horned Lark 



Crow 



Starling. 

 Cowbird . 



Name of family 



Cotingas. . . , 

 Flycatchers. 



Song Sparrow. 



Scarlet Tanager 



Barn Swallow 



Cedar Wax wing 



[Phainopepla] 



Northern Shrike 



Red-eyed Vireo 



[Bahama Honey-Creeper] . 



Redstart 



(Pipit) 



(Dipper) 



Brown Thrasher 



House Wren 



Brown Creeper 



(White-breastedNut-hatch) 



(Chickadee) 



(Wren-Tit) 



Ruby-crowned Kinglet . . . 

 Robin 



Larks 



Crows, Jays, Ravens and Mag- 

 pies 



Starlings 



Blackbirds, Orioles, Crackles, 

 etc 



Grosbeaks, Finches, Sparrows, 

 etc 



Tanagers 



Swallows 



Waxwings 



Silky Flycatchers 



Shrikes 



Vireos 



Honey-Creepers 



Wood Warblers 



Wagtails 



Dippers 



Thrashers, Mockingbirds, etc. 



Wrens 



Creepers 



Nuthatches 



Chickadee 



Wren-Tits 



Kinglets, Gnatcatchers, etc . . . 



Thrushes, Robins, Bluebirds, 

 etc 



Note. — Of the number of species and subspecies noted, the following are extralimital reckoned in the 

 order of the families given, i, 6, o, 6, o, 3, 9, o, 3, o, o, o, 2, o, 2, 3, 1, i, 2, i, o, 2, o, o, 2 



