APPENDIX 



HOW TO FOKM AN AUDUBON SOCIETY 

 SUGGESTIONS AND SELECTIONS FOR CLUBS 



~No bad man is known to have loved birds and to have 

 made them his friends. Friendship with birds stands for 

 all that is best in life. 



A generation ago a man who would paint a bird must 

 sacrifice the life of the bird. The camera has now made 

 this shutting out of the life of a bird unnecessary. The 

 taming of birds by putting suet and scraps on branches and 

 twigs of trees near glass windows brings the lone winter 

 bird into view without taking its life. 



The study of birds is the study of many sides of nature. 

 Form your little club for the study of birds, and let each 

 member have a sketching camera. 



St. Valentine's Day was once regarded as the begin- 

 ning of the English spring. It was, after the old poets' 

 legends, the wedding-day of the birds. Let the annual 

 meeting of the bird-lovers' society be held, when conven- 

 ient, on St. Valentine's Day, in winter, or, if summer time 

 be desirable, under the trees in the open field. 

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