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■with the work in manual training, as is being 

 done in some cities. Mr. Finley, a field-agent of 

 the Audubon Societies, writes from Oregon : 

 " We have a great deal of interest in bird-study 

 ■worked up in various schools about the state. 

 Wherever there is a manual-training school they 

 are making many bird-houses." Superintendent 

 Alderman, of Eugene, Oregon, writes that while 

 he was county school superintendent of Gamhill 

 County he encouraged the children of the manual- 

 training department to build bird-houses, which 

 they did to the extent of over one thousand. 

 With reference to the work in Eugene he 

 writes : " As a result of a Kttle encouragement, 

 the children brought in for inspection 334 bird- 

 houses. They filled three rooms of the Eugene 

 High School. Almost every yard has a bird- 

 house in it now. Birds build in most of the 

 houses. The notes the children kept of the selec- 

 tion of the house, etc., were made the basis of 

 the language work. The children were warned 

 not to let the English sparrow build in the 

 houses. The following birds built in the child- 

 ren's houses : violet-green swallow, bluebird, 

 wren, chickadee. The civilizing effect of bird- 

 study upon the children is at once evident. It 

 is the finest training in observation that I know 

 of," 



