HOW TO PROTECT THE BIRDS Q4S 
forester would be one long battle against the pests of the 
insect world. 
Learn that it is wise to encourage birds, as well as to pro- 
tect them from slaughter. A little food intelligently bestowed 
is always accepted as a token of friendship and hospitality. 
Any country dweller can draw birds around him, if he will. 
Why grudge a few simple shelter-boxes, a few handfuls of 
grain and a few pounds of fat pork when in exchange for them 
you may have, even in winter’s dreariness, the woodpeckers, 
chickadees, juncos and many other winter “residents” and 
“‘visitants”’? Surely, no right-hearted man or boy can pre- 
fer solitude to the company of cheerful and beautiful feathered 
friends. 
Don’t Make Brrp or Eae “Couiections.”—Learn to 
take broad views—bird’s-eye views, if you please—of the 
bird world. Consider how you can promote its enjoyment, its 
betterment and its perpetuation. Think not that in order 
to take an interest in birds it is necessary to buy a gun and 
a bushel of cartridges. Don’t think that a badly made bird- 
skin in a smelly drawer is as pleasing an object in the sight of 
God or man as the living bird would be. Do not, I beg of 
you, make a “‘collection of bird-skins”’; for the ‘‘bird-skin 
habit,’ when given free rein, becomes a scourge to the bird 
world. 
Do not think that ornithology is the science of dead 
birds,. named in a dead language; or that an attic room is 
the best field for the study of birds. Study bird-life, not 
merely the mummied remains of dead birds. And, finally, 
don’t collect eggs! They teach no useful lesson. The ma- 
