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pensile nests of the highest types of nest-builders, we find every gradation in work- 

 manship and elaboration among our native birds. 



REFERENCES 



Bendire: Life Histories of Birds. 

 Davie: Nests and Eggs of North American Birds. 

 Gentry: Life-Histories of the Birds of Eastern Pennsylvania. 

 Raine: Bird-nesting in Northwest Canada. 



Goss: A Revised List of the Birds of Kansas, with Descriptive Notes of the Nests 

 and Eggs of the Birds Known to Breed in the State. 

 Stockard: Nesting-habits of Birds in Mississippi. 

 Chapman: Camps and Cruises of an Ornithologist. 

 Chapman: Bird Studies with a Camera. 

 Chapman: Birds' Nests and Eggs. 

 Dugmore: Bird Homes. 

 Job: Wild Wings. 

 Finley: American Birds. 

 Herrick: Nests and Nest-building in Birds. 



A. H. W. 



FROM YOUNG OBSERVERS 



Our Bird Club 



I live in Concord, Mich. I am eleven years old and in the fifth grade. We 

 have a bird-club in our room of which I am a member. We are studying the 

 colors and habits of birds of various kinds. 



I enjoy studying the birds very much. You may think the Blue Jay is 

 a cruel bird; well, he is, but he does more good than harm. I am sure that 

 you are all familiar with this bird. Once I saw a Blue Jay in an evergreen 

 tree. He would fly to the ground and then to a tree ; this he did several times. 

 Whether there was food there or not, I do not know. 



Our club took up a collection, and our teacher sent for nearly twenty 

 pictures of different kinds. 



Lately we have been studying the Robin and the Goldfinch, which was 

 very interesting. We had the pictures of them colored and a picture that 

 was not, and we colored the picture that was not, the same as the 

 colored one. 



We put out bird-houses and lunch-counters, and have had quite good 

 success. 



If you ever study birds, you will find it interesting. — Eleanor Lyman 

 (age 11). 



[This letter is to be commended for the amount of information which it contains, 

 the genuine enthusiasm that it expresses, and the habit of observation which it suggests 

 is being formed. Perhaps this little girl will keep on watching the Blue Jay until she 

 discovers just where and how it finds its food. — A. H. W.] 



