THE BIRD STUDY BOOK 

 Owaissa, after the Indian name for Bluebird, as 

 given in Longfellow's "Hiawatha." 



Sending Birds' Nests to City Children. — Mrs. An- 

 thony W. Dimock, of Peekamose, New York, makes 

 the following interesting report : 



"The Robin Junior Audubon Circle is composed 

 of the boys and girls of three district schools in a 

 Catskill Mountain valley. No one school has 

 enough pupils of required age to form a circle, and the 

 distances between them are so great that frequent 

 meetings cannot be hed, but good work is being 

 done. 



"The most interesting feature of our work the 

 past year was the collection of abandoned birds' nests 

 in the autumn. One school of five pupils collected 

 over ioo nests. From these collections two selec- 

 tions of ten nests each were made, to be sent to 

 New York City. One collection went to the Jacob 

 Riis Settlement, and one passed through the hands of 

 three kindergartens, interesting ioo children. To 

 each nest was attached a coloured picture of the bird 

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