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THE YOUNG SCIENTIST. 
neatly is sure to elicit applause from an 
audience. It consists of circles behind 
the head with each club, in the direction 
shown by the arrows, one club passing in 
a downward direction while the other is 
swinging up. 
Exercise 11 (Fig. 13). This is not very 
difficult to perform. Keep the arms 
straight, and beware of a collision. The 
clubs are swung in a circle across and in 
front of the body, passing one another 
twice ill their course— once when above 
the head (as in the figure) and again in 
front of the legs. 
Exercise 12 fFig. 14).— Now this is diffi- 
cult, and will take a long time to learn. 
It is a complication of Exercise 3. Com- 
mence with that, and, having got the 
clubs into a good swing, check the course 
of the right arm, slightly decrease the 
pace of the left arm, and throw the right 
club sharply behind the body, until the 
base rises a little above the left shoulder 
(see Fig. ) ; then swing it back to a and b, 
and continue the original circle, all this 
time keeping the other club (the left) 
traveling in a circle, until it becomes its 
turn to effect the movement that the 
right one has just completed, and so on. 
first with the right club behind the body, 
and then with the left in front, and vice 
versa. This is one of the best and pret- 
tiest exercises yet described, and will en- 
tail long and patient practice ; but when 
thoroughly acquired it will well repay the 
perseverance expended upon it. 
Our Birds. 
BY C, W. 
b^s^yjlPAEE moments may be very 
pleasantly spent in watching 
L^^lJ the birds. It may be thought 
that nothing new can be learned 
about our more common birds, such as 
the robin or chij^ping sparrow, but I 
think that many interesting facts will be 
noted by any one who gives a little time 
to their study. 
But I hear some one say, " Well, that 
is all right, but those of us that live in the 
city don't have much of a chance to watch 
birds." Now here is just where I dis- 
agree with you, for I live in a city and yet 
in the course of a year I generally fill a 
good-sized note-book. Among the species 
that I have noted during the past year, 
here in the city, are the night-hawk, 
bluebird, catbird, Baltimore oriole, Eng- 
lish sparrow, purple grakle, cow-bunting, 
brown creeper, crow, kingbird, chipping 
sparrow, song sparrow, house wren, hum- 
ming-bird, Phoebe bird, white-bellied not- 
