to six, at first greenish white in color, but soon become dirty,
and are then of a yellowish red or olive-brown tint, sometimes marbled.

The male and female both sit upon the nest, and the young are hatched in
three weeks. From the first moment they are able to swim, and in a few
days to dive. Having once quitted the nest they seldom return to it, a
comfortable resting and sleeping place being afforded them on the backs
of their parents. "It is a treat to watch the little family as now one,
now another of the young brood, tired with the exertion of swimming or
of struggling against the rippling water, mount as to a resting place on
their mother's back; to see how gently, when they have recovered their
strength, she returns them to the water; to hear the anxious, plaintive
notes of the little warblers when they have ventured too far from the
nest; to see their food laid before them by the old birds; or to witness
the tenderness with which they are taught to dive."

BIRD DAY IN THE SCHOOLS--Continued from page 129.

the singing of their feathered brothers of the air. Call attention to
their beauty and grace of form, plumage and movement. Watch them care
for their little ones. Notice their nests--their happy little
homes--those "halfway houses on the road to heaven," and as you and your
flock wander, watch and listen and call to mind that,

"'Tis always morning somewhere, and above
The awakening continents, from shore to shore,
Somewhere the birds are singing evermore."

Let us, fellow teachers and fellow citizens of America, take up this
work of bird study and bird protection. Let the schools teach it, the
press print it, and the pulpit preach it, till from thousands of happy
throats shall be proclaimed the glad tidings of good will of man towards
the birds.

C. H. MORRILL,
_Supt. of Schools_.
Fort Madison, Iowa.

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