NATURE STUDY
What is the most brutal of the dogs? 539.
What is one of the oldest dogs in Great Britain? 539.
In what country is a dog the poor man's horse? 539.
What dog is an irredeemable thief of food? 539.
What are the members of the cat family? 347.
What is the American wild cat called? 348.
What are the best known domestic cats? 348.
What kind of a cat has no tail? 348.
What was said of the black cat in the Middle Ages? 348.
What is the difference between a rabbit and a hare? 1577.
Where were 25,000,000 rabbits killed in a year? 1577.
What is the origin of the name hare-lip? 837.
What are the natural enemies of rabbits and hares? 837.
What immense injury results from the absence of natural enemies? 837*
What curious mistake is made about guinea pigs? 812.
What is the turtle dove? 1489.
How did Darwin use pigeons? 1490.
Is the carrier pigeon the one that carries messages? 1490, 341.
Are doves distinct from pigeons? 1490.
BIRDS.
How can bird houses be made cat proof? 1321. How are birds unlike all other animals? 217. Did birds ever have teeth? 217.
How many kinds of birds are there in the world? 217. What is the best way to observe birds? 217. Name some of the water birds? 217. To what class do most of the song birds belong? 217. What kind of a bird is a common chicken? 217. What are the running birds? 217. How do the mining birds build their nests? 217. What bird lays its eggs on the bare ground? 217. What are the mound building birds? 217. What bird builds its nest like a baker's oven? 217. How does the carpenter bird build its nest? 217. What bird is locked up in its nest while hatching? 218. What are summer and winter birds of passage? 218. What man first saw birds of paradise in their native homes? 218 Does the male or the female have the beautiful feathers? 218. How many kinds of birds of paradise are there? 218. What birds are never seen in flocks? 687. What birds catch insects on the wing? 687.
What bird is unjustly accused of killing many honey bees? 1004. What bird sings pewit-phoebef 1473. What bird has a dreamy note of pee-a-weef 1463. Where does the horned lark live? 1031.
What member of the blackbird family is called a lark? 1194. Where do 40,000 crows assemble at one time? 482. What birds does the jay imitate? 966. Where is the red-winged blackbird found? 222. What bird is called a locust bird and the ax-bird? 1813. Are the orioles of the U. S. the same as those of Europe? 1394. What bird is shot for the table as reed birds? 232. Where is this bird called the rice bird? 232. What is the "gladdest bird that sings"? 233. What bird rides on a cow's back? 469. What bird has three broods a year? 1791.
What is the American representative of the European kestrel? 1792. What is the bluest bird that flies in North America? 923. What bird is called the thistle bird and yellow bird? 778. What bird feeds largely upon rice? 807. What is the typical bird of the air? 1852. What bird protects the negro's chicken yard? 1179. What bird is called a swallow, but is more closely related to the humming bird? 1855. How does the catbird sing? 349.
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