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nesters and she has been known to remain on the eggs during snow storms 
until the snow was half an inch deep about her. 
10. That on the ferry boat across the Illinois River at Kampsville, a 
prothonotary warbler has built for several years in a box erected on a post 
on the side of the boat. When the young are hatched the mother flies from 
shore to shore, feeding the babies with insects gleaned from the willow trees 
on the nearer bank. 
11. That the bands of Tanglefoot placed about our elm trees to protect 
them from canker moth caterpillars are fearfully destructive to little brown 
creepers. The mouse-like little birds work slowly up the tree and often, 
instead of flying over the obstruction, try to hop through, thus being hope- 
lessly besmeared with the sticky adhesive. 
12. That a well-placed bluebird box occasionally acts as host to four 
distinct nests in a single season. 
Quincy, Illinois. 
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An Early Child’s Book 
BIRD BOOKS with descriptions and illustrations of greater or less accuracy 
have been in existence for centuries, but the idea of popularizing the study 
of ornithology and of interesting children by means of books specially de- 
signed for them is comparatively recent. There are now books on the 
market with beautifully colored plates and concise descriptions of the more 
common species, and sold at prices that permit them to be placed in the 
hands of a great many young students. 
GEMS 
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CHILDREN ma UE 
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THE OWL. 
OF all the strange birds 
That ever I did see, 
The owl is the drollest, 
By all odds, to me. 
: For all the day long 
CONCORD, N.H. He sits on a tree, 
J. A. MERRIAM. And when the night comes 
RUFUS MERRILL. Then away flies he. 
To prove that this has not always been so we are reproducing the cover 
page, and the one other page which deals wiith a single well-known bird, 
of a small “book” circulated some seventy years ago. It consists of the 
