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  Stories may be told by teachers or pupils with accompanying illustrations hastily sketched on the blackboard as the story progresses. The following lend themselves readily to this work:

‘The Ugly Duckling,’ ‘The Daisy and the Lark,’ Hans Christian Anderson; ‘The White Heron,’ Sarah Orne Jewett; ‘The White Blackbird,’ Guy de Maupassant; ‘The Crane Express,’ Child World: ‘The Crow and the Pitcher,’ ‘The Fox and the Crane,’ ‘The Crane and the Crows,’ Æsop′s Fables.

‘Nest Egg,’ Robert Louis Stevenson; ‘Anxiety,’ George Macdonald; ‘The Song Sparrow,’ ' ‘The Veery,’ ' Dr. van Dyke; ‘The One in the Middle,’ Margaret Eytinge; ‘The Bluebird,’ Emily Huntington Miller; ‘The Peter Bird,’ Henry Thompson Stanton; ‘The Robin,’ Celia Thaxter; ‘Brother Robin,’ Mrs. Anderson; ‘The Birds′ Orchestra,’ Celia Thaxter; ‘The Sandpiper,’ Celia Thaxter; ‘Little Birdies,’ Tennyson; ‘The Brown Thrush,’ Lucy Larcom; ‘The Titmouse,’ Emerson; ‘The Stormy Petrel,’ Barry Cornwall; ‘The Sorrowful Sea Gull,’ Child World; ‘Robert of Lincoln,’ ‘The Return of the Birds,’ Bryant; ‘The Blackbird,’ Alice Cary; ‘The Crow′s Children,’ ‘The Chicken′s Mistake,’ Phoebe Cary; ‘What the Birds Said,’ Whittier.



Migration Tables for April and May

T our request, Dr. A. K. Fisher has furnished the following notes on the spring migration. They are based on fifteen years′ observation and will therefore prove valuable as a guide, and interesting for comparison, to other observers. A list of Mississippi Valley migrants, which we expected to receive, unfortunately arrived too late for publication, while a list from Philadelphia, by Mr. Witmer Stone, is necessarily omitted for lack of space. —

AVERAGE DATES OF ARRIVAL OF THE COMMONER BIRDS AT SING SING, N. Y., DURING APRIL AND MAY BY DR. A. K. FISHER

Pied-billed Grebe, Wilson's Snipe, Sparrow Hawk, Osprey, Kingfisher, Fish Crow, Cowbird, Savanna Sparrow, Vesper Sparrow, Swamp Sparrow, White-throated Sparrow, Tree Swallow.

Green Heron, Black-crowned Night Heron, American Bittern, Pigeon Hawk, Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, Purple Finch, Chipping Sparrow, Field Sparrow, Myrtle Warbler, Yellow Palm Warbler, Large-billed Water Thrush, Ruby-crowned Kinglet, Hermit Thrush.

Chimney Swift, Least Flycatcher, Towhee, Purple Martin, Barn Swallow, Bank Swallow, Blue-headed Vireo, Black and White Warbler, Catbird, Brown Thrasher, House Wren, Wood Thrush.