THE BIRD STUDY BOOK 



neighbour's cat has to catch its own birds. Perhaps, 

 if the Httle girl can be an Audubon member another 

 year, there will be no more cat ! 



"A mother of another little member of the class 

 used to delight in birds' plumes, breasts, or feathers of 

 some kind on her hat. Her spring hat this year was 

 trimmed in ribbon. 1 have heard several bird 

 lovers say that they have noticed more of our com- 

 mon wild birds about this place than there were last 

 year, and they believe the Junior Audubon societies 

 in the schools have brought about this happy state. 

 When school closed many of the mothers came to me 

 and said that they wished to thank me for what I 

 had done for their children along the line of nature 

 study, especially of birds. They said that they 

 thought the Junior Audubon Class a splendid thing 

 for their children. And I think it is equally good for 

 the teachers." 



Another Junior Club leader. Miss Edna Stafford, 

 a teacher in the public schools of Albany, Indiana, 

 writes : " One day last summer a twelve-year-old boy 

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