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In the fall, the honor list plates, colored by the chil- 

 dren, were bound in one volume and placed in the chil- 

 dren's room of the Milton Public Library. This course 

 was adopted for three reasons: 



1. We want the children to recognize that they per- 

 sonally contributed to the bird work going on in the 

 township. 



2. We feel that the moral lesson to the individual 

 child of doing something for the Public Library of the 

 town is good. 



3. We are securing from the interest in these plates 

 the attendance at the library of persons who had never 

 before stepped foot in the building. 



Here again is shown a far-reaching influence which was 

 not dreamed of when the exhibition was planned. 



Bird Games for Children or Adults 



There are several games and amusements that will 

 help interest children and adults in bird life. 



Tack upon trees about the house or indoors a series 

 of the Brown pictures of birds, having each carefully 

 numbered. Supply a check list to each one playing 

 the game. Give prizes to those correctly listing the 

 greatest number of the bird pictures. At the State 

 Bird Day meeting at Worcester, July 22, 19 14, three 

 persons correctly named sixty-eight out of a possible 

 seventy-one. 



The Cardboard Outlines for Making Birds 



Milton Bradley Co., 120 Boylston St., issue "Birds 

 for School and Home," folios 1, 2, 3, 4, 25c each. These 

 are outlines of birds to be cut from cardboard 

 and colored by the children: when pasted together they 

 make excellent birds. They can readily be used to 

 acquaint little children with the birds and should be a 



