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First page picture: 'Statue of Joan of Arc, Standing Near the Main Entrance to the Public Library, Melbourne' photograph by Sutcliffe, Melbourne accompanying poem: 'The Maid', [129].
Editor's Note: 'The 25th of October is Bird Day' [129]; 'Our Schools and the War' with (unattributed) photograph: 'Christmas Boxes', 142-143.
Poetry: 'The Maid' by Theodore Roberts (q.v.) with picture: 'Statue of Joan of Arc, Standing Near the Main Entrance to the Public Library, Melbourne', [129]-130; 'He Killed the Birds' extract from Nature and Culture by George B. Staff with two pictures: 'A Boobook Owl' from Handbook of the Destructive Insects of Victoria and 'A Kestrel Hawk' taken by Mr D. le Souef, 132-133; 'Two Birds From Alabama' by Walt Whitman (q.v.) with portrait: 'Walt Whitman' (q.v.) signed, 138.
Fiction: 'How Polly Cured the Cat' extract from Our Little Friend, California by Alice M. Snyder with two pictures: 'A Macaw That has his Stand Near the Entrance to the Zoological Gardens, Melbourne' from Almost Human: Reminiscences From the Melbourne Zoo and 'Sizer Looked at the Parrot with Longing Eyes' (unattributed) 135-137.
Prose: 'Birds on the Battle Front' (unattributed) 140.
Song: 'Hark! The Lark' words by William Shakespeare (q.v.) and music by Dr. B. Cooke, 143-144.
Contents
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Chisholm promotes to children the value of studying birdlife in its natural habitat, rather than by book-learning. While he acknowledges that ornithology is gaining a place in Australian education, he is concerned for the decrease in the number of birds in Victoria.
(p. 130-132)
Note: With photograph: 'Out in the Bush: Pupils of the Harrietville School, Victoria, Upper Ovens River, Victoria' by Mr A. Edwards of Gardiner School.
Tabs, an Australian Spotless Crake, is found by a girl who wants to take a photograph of him among the eggs of the rest of his family, if only he would stop still long enough.
(p. 133-135)
Note: With two pictures: 'A Spotless Crake' from An Australian Bird Book and 'A Nest of the Spotless Crake' photograph taken by Miss J. A. Fletcher.