TEACHING BIRD STUDY 



^25,000 more than the children's fees amount to. 

 Of this amount Mrs. Sage continues to contribute 

 one-fifth, the remaining four-fifths being given by an 

 anonymous friend of children and birds. In supply- 

 ing these pupils and their teachers with the necessary 

 pictures, leaflets, and outline drawings of birds for 

 colouring, over thirty-one million pages of printed 

 information have been distributed. Pupils have 

 taken hold of this bird study with great zest. Many 

 a dull or inattentive boy, who had been a despair to 

 his teacher and parents, responded to this real nature 

 teaching which took him from his ordinarily uninter- 

 esting studies into the wide out of doors. Thousands 

 of teachers have written letters filled with expressions 

 of thankfulness for this opportunity which has come 

 to them and reciting details of the variety of ways in 

 which they have been able to make use of this plan 

 and material for bird study. 



IVhat One Teacher Did. — Here, for example, is one 

 from Miss Beth Merritt, who teaches in a little school 

 at Fountain City, Tennessee: "1 am very glad to 

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