CHALK TALKS
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.
FOR READING OR RECITATION
‘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
AT 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. — Ed.
AVERAGE DATES OF ARRIVAL OF THE COMMONER BIRDS AT
SING SING, N. Y., DURING APRIL AND MAY
April 1 to 10
Pied-billed Grebe, Wilson's Snipe, Sparrow Hawk, Osprey, Kingfisher, Fish Crow, Cowbird, Savanna Sparrow, Vesper Sparrow, Swamp Sparrow, White-throated Sparrow, Tree Swallow.
April 10 to 20
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.
April 20 to 30
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.
