Identifier: birdlore161914nati (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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tration carries one inthought from colonial New Jersey to The Audubon Societies 233 modern Florida, and shows the club atPalm Beach, in respect to which Mrs.Flora Grice Havill, its organizer, writesan entertaining story: This Audubon Class was the result ofthe interest aroused by a lecture by Dr.Eugene Swope; and, after listening tohim, it was easy to arouse enthusiasm inthe pupils. I began by reading to them adelightful little book, Dickey Downy,by Virginia Sharpe Patterson, an auto- program of poems and sketches. We useour leaflets for either a reading- or alanguage-lesson, or both; and so enthusi-astic have the children become that theywant to study birds only—nothing elseseems to possess enough of life and charm.They have brought in several desertednests, and some of the boys are makingbird-houses. The officers of the societyhave offered a prize to the class for thebest essay, of not less than one hundredand fifty words, on the Robin. Theyhave chosen for judges the supervisor of
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THE DICKEY DOWNY AUDUBON SOCIETY AT PALM BEACH, FLORIDA biography of a bird. As I finished thelast chapter, my oldest, roughest, and mosttrying boy laid on my desk a good like-ness of the Meadowlark that he had cutfrom a paper and nicely colored; on theunderside were these words: I will neverkill another bird. Then every childwanted to bring some story, or a clippingfrom a newspaper or magazine, pertain-ing to birds or animals; and some of theboys consulted the sheriff as to the lawsfor their protection. I then organizedan Audubon Society of twenty-six mem-bers out of my Fifth Grade of thirty-twopupils, and we named it Dickey DownySociety. We have a meeting once in two weeks,at which the officers are learning to con-duct a business meeting and a literary the primary department and the Englishteacher in the high school; and the con-test promises to be a very interesting one. Methods in Ohio and New Jersey Ashland, Ohio, has an importantJunior Class, composed, as its leader,Ralph D. Ric

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