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Title: Bird Day; How to prepare for it

Author: Charles Almanzo Babcock

Release Date: April 30, 2007 [EBook #21266]

Language: English

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BIRD DAY

HOW TO PREPARE FOR IT

BY

CHARLES A. BABCOCK, A.M., LL.B.

_Superintendent of Schools, Oil City, Pennsylvania_

SILVER, BURDETT AND COMPANY

NEW YORK BOSTON CHICAGO

COPYRIGHT, 1901,

BY SILVER, BURDETT AND COMPANY

* * * * *

THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED

TO THE LOVERS OF CHILDREN

AND OF BIRDS

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AUTHOR'S NOTE

The aim of this book is to assist school children in the accurate
study of a few birds. It is believed that if this be attained, further
study of birds will take care of itself.

Thanks are due the Audubon Society, ornithologists, educators, and
legislators, for the generous approbation and assistance which they
have given the Bird Day movement.

Special thanks are due the Department of Agriculture for permission to
use the illustrations in this volume. Those on pages 65, 67, 69, 71,
73, 75, 77, 79, 85, 87, 89, 93, and 95 are printed from electrotypes
from the original illustrations appearing in "Farmer's Bulletin," No.
54. Those on pages 81 and 83 are from the Yearbook of the Department
for 1899, and that on page 91 from the Yearbook for 1898. All these
publications are issued by the Department.

CONTENTS

I. HISTORY OF THE MOVEMENT FOR "BIRD DAY"

II. THE VALUE OF BIRDS

III. THE DESTRUCTION OF BIRDS

IV. PLAN OF STUDY

V.