. The Beard birds, life size, standing alone, with adjustable wings . own wings a little. THE SCARLET TANAGER It will take only a little while to make your paper Scarlet Tanager,but it will look so much like the real bird that when you see the livingone you cannot help but know him. The Scarlet Tanager does not come north as early as some of theother birds and is not seen as often; but if he is near, you wont miss him,because his cblor is so bright. You must look for him on the edge of the woods, in the orchard, orin a large park. Sometimes he will even make his home in a large treeon the vill
. The Beard birds, life size, standing alone, with adjustable wings . own wings a little. THE SCARLET TANAGER It will take only a little while to make your paper Scarlet Tanager,but it will look so much like the real bird that when you see the livingone you cannot help but know him. The Scarlet Tanager does not come north as early as some of theother birds and is not seen as often; but if he is near, you wont miss him,because his cblor is so bright. You must look for him on the edge of the woods, in the orchard, orin a large park. Sometimes he will even make his home in a large treeon the village street. He does not build a very neat nest; it is flat andragged and made of twigs and small roots; and he usually puts it outof reach on a high branch. Four or five green blue, or dull white, eggs with brown spots onthem will be in the Scarlet Tanagers nest. He belongs to the family of Tanagers. THE BEARD BIRDSSCARLET TANAGER STAND-UP—LIFE SIZE PATENTED MAY 12, 1014 SEASON: Near New York—Middle of May tolate August. SONG: Pshaw! Wait-wait-waitfor me, wait!. BEFORE CUTTING OUTCOLOR WITH DRY CRAYON PENCILS Beak, brown. Legs and feet, brown. Stand, green. Cut out bird, wings and half-stand. Bend out lower parts of stand along dotted lines. Cut slit D in wings and slit D in back. Slide slit D in wings into slit D in back. Glue upper part of half-stand to upper part of stand on bird. Bend down wings a little. THE BLACK-AND-WHITE CREEPER The Black-and-White Creeper is a little fellow, smaller than any ofyour other paper birds ; and you can make him in a twinkle, because allof his markings are on him. It will be easy to find the real bird. You can often see him runningbriskly round and round the trunk of a tree, clinging to its sides like afly. That is where he looks for his dinner of insects, and he is very busyabout it. When you have made your paper bird you will know theBlack-and-White Creeper from any of the other birds that you see onthe tree-trunks. Although this little
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