Identifier: birdlore16nati (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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f others, more kind-hearted to all living creatures, and areeager to do something that will count forhappiness or betterment in the bird-world,and hence, in our own. The two succeeding letters come fromteachers more advanced than are most ofthem in a knowledge of zoology. I have always been interested inbirds, writes Ruth Buckingham, of Love-land, and have a picture-collection of overfifty different species found in this part ofOhio. I keep this collection where thechildren can have access to it, so thatwhen they have a few spare momentsthey may get a bird and try to draw itwith the colored crayons I give them forthat purpose. I do not try to stuff thechildren with information. I try to getthem to find out things for themselves. This last one is from a principal, W. N.Thayer, of Norwood: I have been givingincidental instruction in bird-study inconnection with our work in biologicalnature-study, for some years past, andI have found the Audubon leaflets andpictures valuable supplements.
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1. Worthens Sparrow 3. Green-tailed Towhee. Im. 2. Texas Sparrow 4. Green-tailed Towhee, Adult (One-half natural size) 2^irlr=1tore A BI-MONTHLY MAGAZINE DEVOTED TO THE STUDY AND PROTECTION OF BIRDS Official Organ of The Audubon Societies Vol. XVI September—October, 1914 No. 5 Some Observations on Bird Protection in Germany By WILLIAM P. WHARTON With photographs by the Author IN August, 1913, the writer had the good fortune to make a brief visit tothe estate of Baron Hans von Berlepsch, at Seebach, district of Langen-salza, Germany, and to observe something of the methods for attractingand protecting wild birds employed with such wonderful success there. For afull description of these methods, the reader is referred to the book entitledMethods of Attracting and Protecting Wild Birds, which, in its English trans-lation, is for sale by the National Association of Audubon Societies. Those familiar with that book are aware that the Barons success restsupon three cornerstones: (i) Large

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