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BY THE WAYSIDE 
Cascade, Wis., June 29, 1905. 
Dear Wayside: 
I am going to describe a wren’s nest. 
It is made of straw lined with horsehair. 
It is a little smaller than a sparrow and 
has a little stuhhy tail. The eggs are 
brownish. A wren built a nest in a bale 
of hinder twine that my papa hung in an 
apple tree. Its song is very noisy. 
Yours truly, 
Aged 8. Jennie Hoftiezen. 
Waldo, Wis., June 28, 1905. 
Dear Wayside: 
I am going to describe the martin and 
its nest. The hack of the martin is 
purple, the breast is brownish. The 
eggs are about the size of a song sparrow’s 
eggs. They are a clear delicate white. 
They make their nest of twigs and line it 
with feathers. They like to build in 
bird houses. 
Yours truly, 
Aged 10. Anna Shelton. 
Cascade, Wis., June 28,1905. 
Dear Wayside: 
I am going to describe the Bronzed 
Grackle. It builds its nest in a tree. It 
built in one of our apple trees in the or 
chard. Its nest is built of sticks and 
lined with hairs and feathers. The 
grackle is a little larger than a robin. Its 
head and neck are a greenish color. Its 
eggs are blue, the size of a robin’s, and 
have black streaks on them. 
Yours truly, 
Myrtle Anderson. 
Portage, Wis., May 24, 1905. 
Dear Wayside: 
Our school house is situated beside a 
pleasant woods where the songs of birds 
can be heard all day. I am going to 
write about the Bobwhite, one kind of 
bird that stays near the school. At re¬ 
cess they do not stay very near, but after 
we go in they come close and get the 
crumbs we leave for them. Thev are 
very shy and always seem happy. I love 
to study about birds. 
Aged 13. May McIntyre. 
Park Falls, Wis., May 4, 1905. 
Dear Wayside: 
Our Audubon Society started this 
spring. We don’t know much about the 
birds, but we are going to learn about 
them for we like them. I am going to 
describe a bird. It is a robin. Her 
breast is red. She has a pretty bill. It 
is quite long. She is quite large and she 
eats worms and crumbs. The mother 
robin is duller in color than the father 
robin. He sings to her while she keeps 
the eggs warm. They build their nests 
close to houses. We have twenty-five 
bird pictures in our school room. This 
is all I will write this time. 
A little Audubon girl, 
Aged 8. Eunice Mulholland. 
Chicago, Ill., Nov. 30, 1904. 
Dear Wayside: 
The ruby crowned kinglet is a very 
shy little bird, and is one of the smallest 
birds in the United States. It is only 
four and one-half inches long and its 
color is mostly gray with a little green 
mixed. It has a bright red spot on the 
back of its head; that is why it was 
named the ruby crowned kinglet, That 
rubv spot is a sort of a crown. 
The golden crowned kinglet is some¬ 
what similar to the ruby crowned kinglet 
only the golden crowned kinglet has a 
golden spot on the back of its head. 
The ruby crowned kinglet comes and 
