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B Y THE WA YSIDE 
teacher, there is an increase of 9 members, 
making the total 26. Miss Adele Lange 
has organized a society of 37 in the sixth 
grade of the Walker School of Washburn. 
At Augusta, Miss Jennie Wadley teacher, 
has organized the Kirkland Valley Au¬ 
dubon Society with a membership of 23. 
The M isses Llovd-Jones have added 32 
m/ 
new members to the society at the Hill¬ 
side Home School. Miss Amy Whipple 
of Waupaca reports a branch of 25 mem¬ 
bers. Miss Alice Bennett of Wyocena 
adds 24 to the society already formed. 
Miss Elizabeth Me Cormick of the Nelson 
Dewey School, Superior, sends 48 new 
names, making a grand total of 405 for 
the school. Miss Lillian Bushman of the 
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Howell School, Racine, has organized a 
society of 27. Miss Grace Marshall, of 
La Valle, has a society of 22; Miss Kate 
Baker, Stevens Point, has organized her 
rural school of 25; Miss L. Esther Stuart, 
South Wavne, sends 21 names; and the 
school children of Rhinelander, to the 
number of about 350, have taken the 
Audubon pledge under the leadership of 
the librarian of the public library, Miss 
Mary Bevans. This gives a total of 650 
new names, bringing the -entire enroll¬ 
ment for the school year up to 991. 
Cross Plains, Wis., May 31, 1906. 
Dear Wayside: 
I request you in the name of our 
school children to please tell us the 
names of the following birds. The bird 
is about as large as a goldfinch, probably 
a little longer. It has a black head; this 
black extends down the breast. On each 
side of the breasts are spots of bright 
orange. There is also some orange in 
the wings. The rest of the latter are 
black. In the tail are feathers of orange 
tipped with black. But this orange is 
not as bright as that of the wings and 
breast. This bird often spreads its tail 
very prettily and hops about in the tree 
from branch to branch as if it could not 
sit still. The under part of the body is 
light gray. 
Another little bird that we have seen 
but do not know is one a little larger 
than a goldfinch. It has a plump little 
body, the top of its head, wings, 
tail and back are gray. The entire under 
part of its body is a bright yellow. 
Either the male or female, (which it is 
we do not know) has a black collar 
around its neck. Hoping to receive an 
answer, I remain as ever, 
Yours very respectfully, 
Aged 12. - Mamie Meyer. 
The first bird is the male redstart 
without doubt; the second is probably 
the male Canadian warbler. 
Feb. 25, .1906. Necedah Wis. 
Dear Wayside:— 
I will tell you how our society started. 
It was John James Audubon, a distin¬ 
guished American ornithologist, born 
in 1780 in Louisiana, May 4. He was 
educated in Paris, hfs parents being of 
French origin. After returning to 
America he was married and went to 
live on a plantation. He spent his time 
wandering through the woods watching 
the habits of birds. Often he was gone 
for months entirely alone in absolutelv 
uninhabited regions. The varieties of 
birds which he observed he sketched at 
once. After about fifteen years of such 
exertion, he went to Philadelphia and 
while living there drew many birds from 
nature, but his pictures were all de¬ 
stroyed. About ten years later he 
removed to Ilinderson Kentucky and 
spent many years in the woods of the 
