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Title: Bird-lore
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: National Association of Audubon Societies for the Protection of Wild Birds and Animals
Subjects: Birds -- Periodicals Birds -- Conservation Periodicals
Publisher: New York, National Association of Audubon Societies
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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Two Nova Scotia Photographs BY C. -WILL BEEBE With photographs from nature by the author. THE slate-colored Junco or Snowbird breeds veryabundantly in the fields of Digby county, Nova 7 j-^-i: V ^ Scotia, and its neat nests are often so artisticallyplaced that they are a continual temptation to thenaturalist photographer. One nest, in particular,with four eggs, was especially beautiful, seen throughthe ground glass of the camera, the contrast be-tween the eggs and the waxy green leaves andscarlet fruit of the bunch-berries near it makingone long for color photography. This nest was in a field, five feetfrom a road, and partly protected by a tiny bank of turf. ^o^
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Five days after the photograph was taken the eggs hatched, andfour balls of long, jet-black fuzz appeared. Daily twelve-hour mealsof green measuring-worms, provided by the parents, wrought marvelsin the appearance of the young birds, and in a surprisingly shorttime a second suit of streaked black and brown was assumed. Inthis, perhaps, the facsimile of their ancestors plumage, they left the (113) 114 Bird-Lore nest, and apparently lost individuality among the large flocks of theirspecies. Another abundant summer bird of this part of Nova Scotia isthe Night-hawk, the name being almost a misnomer, as they are visi-ble in numbers, flying all day. But all do not depart from theirusual custom of sleeping during the day, as is shown in the accom-panying photograph, taken about ir a. m. one August day, 1898.

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