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Identifier: birdlore18nati (find matches)
Title: Bird-lore
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: National Association of Audubon Societies for the Protection of Wild Birds and Animals
Subjects: Birds -- Periodicals Birds -- Conservation Periodicals
Publisher: New York, National Association of Audubon Societies
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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l Mountainvalley. No one school has enough pupilsof required age to form a circle, and thedistances between them are so great thatfrequent meetings cannot be held, butgood work is being done. The most interesting feature of ourwork the past year was the collection ofabandoned birds nests in the autumn.One school of five pupils collected over100 nests. From these collections, twoselections of ten nests each were made, tobe sent to New York City. One collectionwent to the Jacob Riis Settlement, andone passed through the hands of threekindergartners, interesting 100 children.To each nest was attached a colored pic-ture of the bird which had made the nest,and a description of its habits. Lettersfrom the Settlement children and thekindergartners brought to the Circleexpressions of delightful appreciation.The ofiicers of the Circle are, President,Clark Sheley; Secretary, Helen DuBois;Treasurer, Pearl Mulford. A Timely Suggestion See that your bird-houses are ready intime for early migrants.
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A NEIGHBORHOOD GATHERING From a drawing by Walter M. Dunk (68) The Audubon Societies 69 The National Park Service One of the bills that will come beforeCongress this winter will be for the verycommendable purpose of establishing abureau under the Department of theInterior to have charge of the twelveNational Parks, and about thirty NationalMonuments, that have been establishedup to the present time. The work of Enos Mills in gettingNational Parks created, and the efforts ofFrank Bond in securing the establish-ment of National Monuments, bid fairto bear fruit in the form of the creation ofthe bureau indicated above. At the present time the management ofthe two groups of government reserva-tions is under separate heads, and separateappropriations are made for their main-tenance. It is understood that SecretaryLane greatly favors this proposal toCongress, and the National Associationof Audubon Societies is actively workingfor the consummation of the plan. Itmay be remarked in passing that

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