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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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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. Richards tells us, of freshmenand junior high-school students, who haveshown much interest in birds, and callthemselves The Bluebirds. All areworking for new members, and the classhas grown from thirteen members totwenty. Its officers are energetic ingetting new members, arranging for
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The Audubon Societies 235 meetings, and planning for bird-studyand bird-protection. Only workers can bein this class, and the members themselvesmade a rule that three unexcused absencesfrom meetings cause one to lose his orher membership. During the past winter we studiedhabits and characteristics of birds, sothat as the spring came we might appre-ciate and help them. Our meetings areheld once a week after school at the school-house, and once a month in the eveningat the home of a member. Miss Eddy, three distinct Junior Audubon classeshave been organized in School No. ii inthat city; and they now have a combinedmembership of more than one hundredpupils. Meetings are held regularly, in whichbird-charts are kept, recording the timeand place of birds first seen. Familycharacteristics are studied; also the habits,nests, food, etc., of individual birds, withparticular stress on their usefulness. Waysand means of attracting bird-neighborsare discussed. Many bird-houses have

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