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BY TUB WAYS I DU 
Suggestions for Bird Study 
Of course the feeding of birds should 
be continued, not only thus month 
but throughout the winter. Children 
should be urged to spread the gospel 
of winter-feeding among their friends, 
and to report their success and their 
failures to their class. 
This is a good time to start a record 
of birds observed, because there are 
only a few species present. Either on 
the blackboard or in a notebook may 
be written the names of common spe¬ 
cies, and notes made of the dates when 
children report seeing them. Notes 
might also be kept of food or other 
habits observed. Such a notebook, 
well kept, would be of very great value 
to any teacher for work in later years, 
even though such work might be in 
other localities. 
By the time this appears Santa Claus 
will perhaps have come and gone. 
AVould it not be well to have any 
children who received bird-books for 
Christmas, to bring them to school for 
exhibit ? 
Tn connection with geography, it 
would be an easy task now to point 
out, at least in a general way, the re¬ 
gions where our summer birds are pass¬ 
ing the winter. 
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PRIZE LETTER. 
OUR BRAVE BIRDS 
Once I saw a pair of birds build a 
nest in a large elm tree. They were 
robins. After the nest was made the 
mother had four little blue eggs. 
The mother would stay at borne, and 
sit on the eggs while the father would 
go out hunting for food. When the 
mother would get tired of sitting on 
the eggs she would call for her mate 
to come to sit on them while she went 
out for a rest. 
By and by the mother had four little 
birds, and every day they grew larger. 
The parents brought bugs and worms 
and grasshoppers to feed to their ba¬ 
bies. 
AYe had a cat that liked birds. 
Every day he would go out under the 
tree and look up at the little birds. He 
watched them from day to day. 
One morning the mother saw him 
watching her babies and she knew he 
was waiting for a chance to get one, so 
she flew down and nipped him right on 
the top of the ear. 
The cat was so frightened that it 
never went near the tree again. 
That shows how much a rnothei 
thinks of her family and we are glad 
the cat didn’t get the young birds. 
It is the most interesting thing tc 
watch a family of birds and all then 
ways. We should think of all the gooc 
that comes from a little bird; and W( 
should feed them when they come oui 
way and not drive them away, but tr> 
tn keep them with us. 
Ruth AT. Barr, 
Muskegon, Mich., 
321 W. AVebstcr. 
Age 1(1 years. 
