in every school. Each chart has twenty common birds, 
represented life size in natural colors. 
In towns and villag-es if not in country places, itr 
may be possible to organize Bird Clubs and through 
them to arrange for bird tramps and illustrated lectures. 
The Rural Science Department of Prince of Wales Col¬ 
lege will give its help in loaning colored lantern slides- 
to responsible parties. 
Bird Records in Schools. —It is a common prac¬ 
tice in schools to keep a record of bird arrivals on the 
blackboard. This plan is a good one to awaken class 
interest and, if the first observers’ names are put down 
opposite the name of the bird, may arouse wholesome 
rivalry too. Instead of using the blackboard it is sug¬ 
gested that the records be made with a heavy black 
marking pencil on a large sheet of strong manilla paper. 
By this means the records may be kept permanently, 
and comparisons made year by year. If records of last 
appearances are made also the work will be more val¬ 
uable for it. If only the pupils initials are inserted or 
the names written small, a ruling could be used for sev¬ 
eral years after such a plan as this :— 
Bird Observations at .School. 
Dates of First Arrivals and Last Appearances. 
Name of Bird 
1916 
I 9 I 7 
1918 
i 9‘9 
1920 
Robin. 
4/15 10/26 
Pupils should keep a copy of these records in their 
Nature Study note books. They should be encouraged 
too to make lists of the birds which they observe on 
their “ bird tramps,” taken with the teacher or indep¬ 
endently.—If pupils are encouraged to keep all their 
records of bird studies in a separate note book or in a 
special part of their note book, the educational value of 
the work will be enchanced. Here they could insert 
Audubon bird pictures and leaflets, cuttings from the 
Natural History Section of the Montreal Family Herald 
Weekly Star or other papers, their compositions on 
birds etc. 
Inaccuracies of Children’s Observations. — 
Teachers will doubtless often be confused and misled 
by the reports made by pupils. They will report see¬ 
ing birds that one may know can not possibly have 
been seen, and they will offer descriptions of birds that 
“never were on sea or land.” The cure for this lies 
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