TEACHING BIRD STUDY 



and ' I won't forget to wear my button,' and ' I won- 

 der what bird it will be,' from every side. Rarely 

 ever did we have an absent mark on Bird Day. 



"After we had used all ten of the leaflets you sent 

 us, we had lessons on some of the other birds, or, 

 instead of a regular lesson, we went for a bird walk. 

 1 divided the class for these walks, taking ten children 

 at a time. How excited they would get over the 

 birds they saw! Nearly always they could identify 

 the birds themselves, sometimes I helped them, some- 

 times my bird book helped me, and sometimes we 

 had to write in the notebooks, "unknown.' I will 

 not try to tell you about all the good results of our 

 Audubon Class that I have noticed. The most im- 

 portant thing I think is that a few more children have 

 a keen interest and a true love for their little brothers 

 of the air. Last year a favourite pastime of a neigh- 

 bour was shooting birds for his cat, and I think he was 

 no more particular than his cat as to the kind of 

 birds he destroyed. His little daughter was a mem- 

 ber of the Audubon Class and this spring I notice our 

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