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Identifier: birdlore201918nati (find matches)
Title: Bird lore
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: National Committee of the Audubon Societies of America National Association of Audubon Societies for the Protection of Wild Birds and Animals National Audubon Society
Subjects: Birds Birds Ornithology
Publisher: New York City : Macmillan Co.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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our war-preparedness program. We fed the birds on thecampus during the winter In the spring the Club made its annual visit toJohn Burroughs at Slabsides, where, after a picnic lunch, Mr. Burroughsspoke to us informally on the birds.—(Miss) Mildred A. Tindle, Secretary. Vigo County (Ind.) Bird Club.—The plea of the birds was first heard inTerre Haute in August of 1916. Their messenger, Ernest H. Baynes, thenaturalist of Meriden, N. H., on a Chautauqua tour, organized the -VigoCounty Bird Club, whose aim was to foster bird-preservation and -study andfurther the movement for bird sanctuaries. The officers were: President,Mrs. Sara Messing Stern; Vice-President, Assistant Superintendent of SchoolsTilley; Treasurer, Mrs. Wilham Cheney; Secretary, Miss Amanda Lotze. The regular program for the year, under the direction of Prof. Tilley,whose suggestions were most helpful, was as follows: Biography of JohnAudubon; Fall Migration; A study of vacated nests (found by the members Bird - Lore
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JOHN BURROUGHS, AT SLABSIDES, ENTERTAINING THE VASSAR COLLEGEWAKE ROBIN CLUB. and brought to the meeting); Our Winter Birds; Physiological Parts of a Bird;a stereopticon lecture on Winter Haunts. Many additional features wereaccomplished through the aid of Prof. Tilley and Prof. Howard Sandisonof the Indiana State Normal School. A contest was conducted among theschool-children for the making of novel and practical bird-houses. These wereexhibited in the windows of the prominent stores and the awards made at thePublic Library. Many of the public schools made charts of their districts. The childrenlocated as many bird-nests as possible and marked their location on the chart.They then watched the progress of the brooding and, as the eggs were laid,colored the marks on the chart accordingly and classified the species. Thisslight research work aroused great interest among the little people. Miss RoseGriffith, head of the art department of the public schools, stimulated furtherinterest by i

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