Identifier: birdlore101908nati (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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MANUAL TRAINING CLASS AT WORK ON BIRD HOUSES, PORTLAND. OREGONPUBLIC SCHOOLS. Photograph by H. T. Bohlman later and they have bird-houses up in every tree and back yard in the town. Atthe recent annual exhibit of school work, they had 443 bird-houses on display.We have an exhibition of bird-houses now in Portland that were made by thechildren of the manual training department here. It is attracting much attention. We are doing considerable bird work in the schools by getting the childrento make observations in the field and write compositions on the various phases (i3S) 136 Bird - Lore
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BIRD-HOUSES—SCHOOLBOY AT WORKPhotograph by H. T. Bohlman of bird life. Two contests for prizes are being carried on now in this countyand Yamhill County for the best written accounts of the observations made. Good Work in a Pennsylvania School THE annual public meeting of the Audubon Society of the DarlingtonSeminary was held Saturday evening. Mrs. Bye opened the programwith an account of the objects of this Society, and read a letter receivedfrom YVm. Dutcher, President of the National Association, New York, acknow-ledging the receipt of the fee, which entitles the school to sustaining member-ship, also S5 for a subscription to Bird-Lore, a delightful work on ornithology.Mrs. Ball read an instructive paper on The Background of Ornithology.Mrs. Bye then made an earnest appeal to every woman especially to con- The Audubon Societies 137 sider this subject and realize the destruction of bird life that their love for fineryoccasions. Every year large numbers of birds are killed to suppl

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