_Natural Nesting Places Destroyed--Nesting Boxes for
Birds--Some Rules for Making and Erecting Bird
Boxes--Sites of Bird Boxes--Feeding Birds--Community
Sanctuaries--Birdcraft Sanctuary--Cemeteries as Bird
Sanctuaries--A Birdless Cemetery--Birds of a New York
Graveyard--Enemies to Be Eliminated--Berries and Fruit
for Birds._

XII. TEACHING BIRD STUDY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239

_Teaching Children--Junior Audubon Societies--Correlated
Studies--Keeping Scrapbooks--Records of
Migrants--Essays--Sending Old Nests to City
Children--Audubon Prizes--Bird Day._

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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Wood Thrush . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . _Frontispiece in color_

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A ferocious young Eagle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Gannets nesting on the cliffs of Bonaventure
Island, Gulf of St. Lawrence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

A male Plumbeous Gnatcatcher feeding young . . . . . . . . . . 38

A mountain Bluebird family whose home has
been destroyed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Young Robins quarreling at their bath . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Feeding station for birds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Snowy Egret shot on its feeding grounds . . . . . . . . . . . 96

Farallone Cormorants and White Pelicans on
a Government Bird Reservation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

Window "Cafeteria" at home of Mrs. Granville Pike . . . . . . 128

A Christmas dinner for the birds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144

An Egret, bearing "aigrettes," in attendance
on her young . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160

Egret brooding on a Florida island owned and
guarded by the Audubon Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176

The Downy Woodpecker is fond of suet . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192

Members of a Junior Audubon class at Fergus
Falls, Minnesota . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208

A California Hospital for injured birds . . . . . . . . . . . 224

Preparing for the coming of the birds . . . . . . . . . . . . 240

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The fox that followed the footsteps . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Heads and feet of various birds . . . . . . .