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 This chart shows the proportional amount of food the different birds eat.

Build bird houses, report any violations of the bird laws, watch the cats, punish the blue jays and other harmful birds as the law punishes human beings that take life, never put out poison, arrange drinking and bathing places, girls should never wear birds in their hats, never aid in long imprisonment of wild birds.

First learn this quotation: "A bird in the heart is worth more than a hundred in a notebook." Second: Learn repose. Third: Learn to listen. Fourth: Learn to see.

To study birds most successfully proceed to a spot frequented by birds with your notebook and if possible a good binocular field glass (eight to ten diameters). Sit quietly and patiently and you will be rewarded by some shy but curious friend. Raise your glasses slowly and take a detailed description, following the notebook outline given in the supplement (a sample of the supplement is shown in appendix). Having obtained this, open this booklet to the color and size key—we shall suppose that you have seen unknowingly the Steller's Jay—and