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out to the pupil, to give full rein to 
his imagination. The result exceed- 
ed the most sanguine expectations. 
Of the 500 boxes built, there were 
less than ten, which would prove 
impractical and only two of these, 
zat which were entirely useless. Thus 
TWO OF THE PRIZE WINNERS every effort went into good con- 
structive work for our feathered friends. 
Furthermore, where it was to be expected that there would 
be little choice between the various exhibits, where all houses are 
built from the same stereotyped plans, a surprisingly large 
amount, in fact the greater percentage were artistic and tasty 
boxes, built according to the builders own perception of art, to 
be sure, plus the fundamentals of good bird house essentials fully 
incorporated. , 
The manual training instructors entered into the work in a 
fine spirit of enthusiasm, with the result that when the cam- 
paign closed on May 27 almost 500 neat little “Bird Bungalows” 
had been completed. Previous to their delivery to the park dis- 
trict the houses were placed on exhibition in the display windows 
of the Charles V. Weise dry goods store to further interest the 
public in the bird life movement and give an idea of the work 
being accomplished by the manual training department of the 
schools. 




PAUL B. RIIS 
A good library for the winter months: Baynes’ Wild Bird Guests; Chapman’s Our 
Winter Birds; Pearson’s The Bird Study Book; The Check List of Birds of Illinois. Write to 
the Illinois Audubon Society, 10 South LaSalle St., Chicago. 
Rock Island 
A Home Made Bird Bath 
Much has been said and written on the subject of attracting 
birds to our homes through supplying bird baths and drinking 
fountains, but because there is still room for more of them, I 
would like to describe the bath shown in the accompanying 
photographs. 
We had observed so many interesting incidents when only 
small basins had been supplied, that we concluded a larger bath 
would muitiply the pleasure of both birds and observers, but as 
the fountains offered on the market seemed too expensive, be- 
