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BY THE WAYSIDE 
BY TH E WA YSIDE 
Published on the tenth of each month except July and 
August 
The official organ of the Wisconsin and Illirois Audu¬ 
bon Societies. 
Twenty-five cents per year. Single Copies 5 cents 
All communications should be sent to Thos. R. Moyle, 
Appleton, Wis. 
This year our magazine goes to many 
more schools than formerly and we are 
very glad of it because the schools, espe¬ 
cially those containing younger pupils, 
are the ones from which we want to get 
our bird friends. We plan to have pub¬ 
lished this year some articles on how the 
school vards can be made more beauti- 
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ful and especially more attractive to birds. 
We would be very glad to hear of the 
achievements or plans of any of our 
friends along this line. 
We would like to suggest to you, friend 
teacher, that at least once a month the 
subject of the composition lesson be 
something connected with birds. Let it 
be understood that something the chil¬ 
dren have observed is much better than 
something you have told them or they 
have read and we shall be very glad to 
publish the best of these compositions. 
And now as to the study of birds. 
Don’t be deterred from it by the fact that 
you don’t know all about them. Nobody 
does. If you know very little the more 
reason why you should devote some time 
to the stud}" of them, and you and the 
children will be able to meet on a com¬ 
mon ground, each contributing what he 
has learned. 
We will publish each month a list of 
the common birds that will be present at 
that time. For November you should be 
able to see the white-throated sparrow, 
bob-white, hawks, owls, woodpeckers 
(4) the hairy, downy, red-headed, and the 
flicker, the crow, bluejay, song sparrow, 
chickadee, cedar waxwing, white-breasted 
nuthatch, and perhaps a blue-bird, gold¬ 
finch, or prairie horned lark. 
Atkinson, Mentzer & Grover, of Chi¬ 
cago, publish colored plates of these birds 
for two cents each, which would be fine 
to help identify them and will help dec¬ 
orate your schoolroom too. Or if you 
will send us fifteen cents we will include 
a colored plate of the bird of the month 
with each number of the Wavside. 
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A Tragedy in Bird Life. 
These early June mornings, so tempt¬ 
ing to bird-lovers, have often found my 
brother and I afield armed with field 
glass and camera. And always, as we 
have reached a certain favorite spot, the 
familiar call, u Bob White! Bob White!” 
has been sure to greet us. Often, too, we 
flushed the Quail from the underbrush, 
but never a trace of the nest could we find. 
Recently the mystery was solved, and 
a woodland tragedy disclosed as well. 
So carefully was the nest made, and 
so well was it hidden, that ,had it not 
been for the tragedy, we should probably 
never have found it. But five or six 01 
the white eggs scattered about in front 
of the nest drew the eye and, together 
with a bunch of feathers behind it told 
the sad story. 
Perhaps a family of voung weasels that 
I saw playing in a thicket hard by could 
have told more of it. And had we had 
time to stay and watch we might have 
caught the thief coming back for the rest 
of his booty. 
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