BY THE WAYSIDE. 
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return to her and ask to be taken in after win¬ 
tering in the south, shows that they find hap¬ 
piness in her protection. Children should learn 
to tame the birds that nest about their homes, 
but should never deprive them of their liberty. 
The lesson of the Audubon Society to the chil¬ 
dren is: 
“Never to blend their [deasure or their pride 
With sorrow to the meanest thing that feels.” 
Mrs. Clas’s Notes from an Aviary will be 
continued in June and concluded in July. 
Under the name of “The Nature Calendar 
Series,” Rand, McNally & Co. of Chicago have 
published three pocket notebooks by Prof. 
Clarence M. Weed, for students of birds, of 
wild flowers, and of trees and shrubs. These 
will prove a boon to teachers who are con¬ 
ducting classes in nature study, for not only 
do the questions for each day suggest what the 
pupil should look for, but the answers to be 
written in the appropriate spaces will form 
an accurate and systematic account of 
what is going on out of doors, from 
the middle of March, to the end of 
June. Thus the children will be taught to see 
for themselves and to keep a record of their 
observations. The low price of these little 
books, ten cents apiece, or one dollar per 
dozen, brings them within the reach of all. 
The Bird Calendar is warmly recommended to 
the School Branches of the Audubon Society. 
Birds in Their Relations to Man. 
The book with the above title, which has just 
been published by the Lippincott Company, 
should be of interest to bird lovers in general, 
and to members of Audubon Societies in par¬ 
ticular, for it is the first comprehensive ac¬ 
count of the economic relations of American 
birds, and is likely long to serve as a book 
for reading and reference for those interested 
in bird problems. 
An idea of the scope of the volume, which 
comprises nearly 400 good-sized pages, may be 
obtained from this list of chapter titles: 
Introduction, The Relations of Birds to Man; 
The Methods of Studying the Food of Birds; 
The Development of Economic Ornithology; 
The Vegetable Food of Birds; The Animal 
Food of Birds; The Amount of Food Con¬ 
sumed by Birds; Birds as Regulators of Out¬ 
breaks of Injurious Animals; The Relations 
of Birds to Predaceous and Parasitic Insects; 
The Thrushes and their Allies; The Nuthaches, 
Titmice, Creepers, and Wrens; The Warblers 
and the Vireos; The Shrikes, Waxwings, Swal¬ 
lows, and Tanagers; The Finches and Spar¬ 
rows; The English Sparrow; The Orioles, 
Blackbirds, Crows, and Jays; The Flycatchers, 
Humming-Birds, Swifts, and Niglithawks; The 
Woodpeckers), Kinkfishers, and Cuckoos; The 
Owls; The Hawks, Eagles, Kites, and Vultures; 
The Pigeons, Grouse, and Shore-Birds; The 
Water-Birds; The Conservation of Birds.—I, 
The Non-game-Birds; II, The Game-Birds; Pre¬ 
venting the Depredations of Birds; Encourag¬ 
ing the Presence of Birds. 
The book is illustrated by many half-tones 
and line engravings and will prove a useful 
volume for the general library as well as for 
that of the bird lover. 
[Birds in Their Relation to Man. A Manual 
of Economic Ornithology for the United States 
and Canada. By Clarence M. Weed and Ned 
Dearborn. Philadelphia. J. B. Lippincott Co. 
$2.50 net.] 
Bird and Boy. 
We have been enjoying a pair of bluebirds 
which had made their home in a box put up 
by “The man of wrath.” Everything had 
prospered with the family—three eggs had 
been laid and the little mother was patiently 
brooding over them, when home and eggs were 
destroyed by some little boys one day during 
our absence. Fortunately a neighbor saw a 
boy carrying the box and by inquiries we iden¬ 
tified the culprits. 
I sent word to them telling of the pen¬ 
alty attached to depredations of this sort 
and gave them the alternative of coming to 
me and owning the crime or of taking the 
penalty. In a few days two little boys came 
to see me and Mr. Cass and I had a good talk 
with them. I think they were really sorry, 
for they both wanted to join the bird society 
and help protect the birds, and I promised to 
get them each a Wren button. 
The birds, much to our surprise and delight, 
have rebuilt in the replaced box, and we are 
very happy over it. 
Mrs. Edwin T. Cass, 
Whitewater, Wis. 
