24 NEW HAMPSHIRE NATURE STUDIES 
ing things of which man is the highest example. A discussion of 
the methods of encouraging useful birds should follow as a natuial 
consequence of the study, — and this should lead to the election ot 
bird houses, the planting of Russian mulberry or other tiees to fui- 
nish food for the birds, and especially to checking the wanton 
destruction of bird life. 
The Blackburnian Warbler. 
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