schools, as well as being good geography work, to make a chart or 
map of the district, with each house, tree, hedge, vine, bush and 
thicket given its proper place. The separate counting of each kind 
of tree gives the children a good reason for learning the different 
species, and, if any bird shows preferences for particular trees, this 
fact will be brought out. Essays and language 
lessons may be devoted to discussions and descrip¬ 
tions as to the kind of places the different birds 
choose to nest in. Drawing should be combined 
with this, and each schoolroom might contain, 
either in a case or, possibly even better, hung about 
the walls and windows, a collection of deserted 
nests. These the pupils could use for special draw¬ 
ing work and to study as to form and structure, methods used by the 
birds in building, and materials em¬ 
ployed and preferred. Knowledge on 
all the above points will come to hand 
in a succeeding section, when we consider 
especially methods of attracting the birds 
and of providing for their needs. And 
surely nothing in all ornithology is better 
fitted to instill in a child the spirit and 
the love of bird life than the study of 
their wonderful nests. If the children 
Bluebird. were given a course in such study during 
February or March the} 7 could hardly be induced, I should think, to 
molest a bird’s nest the following season. 
THE FOOD CHART. 
A great deal of information, giving at a glance the essence of 
years of study and hundreds of pages of bird books, has been collected 
by Miss Ball into the two pages of the chart. We can see for the 
various birds, so far as is known, just what the species does for man, 
and what, in turn, we may do for the birds, by way of insuring for 
them an abundant and inexpensive supply of their preferred foods. 
Birds have been persecuted and slaughtered for generations because 
they have been compelled to levy toll in cultivated fruits for their in¬ 
valuable services. I say compelled, because we have, hitherto, paid 
