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Another suggestion is for each member of the Club to be 

 provided with one of the Bird Notebooks published by the Corn- 

 stock Publishing Company of Ithaca, New York. These note- 

 books contain for field use outlines for observations of bird col- 

 ors, flight, nesting habits, haunts, foods, etc., and in addition, 

 there are outline drawings on water color paper of the birds 

 to be studied. Additional reference to these notebooks will be 

 found elsewhere in these pages. 



To each member of a group of ten or more provided with 

 one of the above bulletins or notebooks the Illinois Audubon 

 Society will send a supply of the Illinois Audubon buttons free 

 of charge and will send the leader for a period of one year all 

 the publications and special notices of the Society together with 

 an illustrated certificate showing that the group is a member 

 of the Illinois Audubon Society. Teachers wishing to enroll 

 pupils under plans of their own may obtain the Illinois Audu- 

 bon buttons for two cents each. 



Bird Study in the School Program 



The Illinois Audubon Society believes it quite feasible to 

 place accepted aids to bird study on the official list of texts for 

 use in schools. In this way pupils will buy reference texts on bird 

 life in the same way that they buy dictionaries or spelling books. 

 This has been successfully tried out in a number of places. One 

 Illinois school, for example, asks its seventh and eighth grade 

 pupils to provide themselves with a copy of Chapman's What 

 Bird Is That, which they buy at the wholesale rate at the school 

 book store. The sixth grade pupils buy the Comstock Bird 

 Notebooks, etc. This seems very suggestive and so the Illinois 

 Audubon Society offers the following program, the children to 

 be provided with texts which are not so much books about birds 

 as aids to bird study, this being an important distinction: 



Grades one, two, three, and four. No text book recommend- 

 ed, the school to have a liberal supply of mounted pictures, a 

 set of the Keystone stereographs on birds, etc., etc. See Bird 

 Pictures and Picture Mounts, an illustrated seven-page leaflet 

 published by the Illinois Audubon Society. 



Texts for the fifth grade, Comstock Bird Notebook, No. 1 ; 

 sixth grade, Comstock Bird Notebook No. 2 ; for the seventh and 

 eighth grades, Chapman's What Bird Is That. Reading text to 

 be supplied by the school, as follows : fifth grade, Chapman's 

 Winter Birds ; sixth grade, Chapman's The Travels of Birds ; 

 seventh grade, Forbush's Outdoor Bird Study; eighth grade, 

 Henshaw's Fifty Common Birds of Farm and Orchard. The 

 Chapman books are published by D. Appleton and Co., 2457 

 Prairie Ave., Chicago. The well-known Reed Bird Guides pub- 

 lished by Doubleday, Page and Co., have long since proved their 

 great usefulness, but preference is given to Chapman's What 



