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Title: Bird Day; How to prepare for it
Author: Charles Almanzo Babcock
Release Date: April 30, 2007 [EBook #21266]
Language: English
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BIRD DAY
HOW TO PREPARE FOR IT
BY
CHARLES A. BABCOCK, A.M., LL.B.
_Superintendent of Schools, Oil City, Pennsylvania_
SILVER, BURDETT AND COMPANY
NEW YORK BOSTON CHICAGO
COPYRIGHT, 1901,
BY SILVER, BURDETT AND COMPANY
* * * * *
THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED
TO THE LOVERS OF CHILDREN
AND OF BIRDS
* * * * *
AUTHOR'S NOTE
The aim of this book is to assist school children in the accurate
study of a few birds. It is believed that if this be attained, further
study of birds will take care of itself.
Thanks are due the Audubon Society, ornithologists, educators, and
legislators, for the generous approbation and assistance which they
have given the Bird Day movement.
Special thanks are due the Department of Agriculture for permission to
use the illustrations in this volume. Those on pages 65, 67, 69, 71,
73, 75, 77, 79, 85, 87, 89, 93, and 95 are printed from electrotypes
from the original illustrations appearing in "Farmer's Bulletin," No.
54. Those on pages 81 and 83 are from the Yearbook of the Department
for 1899, and that on page 91 from the Yearbook for 1898. All these
publications are issued by the Department.
CONTENTS
I. HISTORY OF THE MOVEMENT FOR "BIRD DAY"
II. THE VALUE OF BIRDS
III. THE DESTRUCTION OF BIRDS
IV. PLAN OF STUDY
V.
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