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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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ed not only without interfering with, but to the advantage of allother practical studies—B. S. BowDiSH. THE VALUE OF BLACKBIRDS Kalm states, in his Travels in America, that in 1749, after a greatdestruction among the Crows and Blackbirds for a legal reward of threepence per dozen, the northern states experienced a complete loss of theirgrass and grain crops. The colonists were obliged to import hay fromEngland to feed their cattle. The greatest losses from the ravages of theRocky Mountain locust were coincident with, or followed soon after, thedestruction by the people of countless thousands of Blackbirds, PrairieChickens, Quail, Upland Plover, Curlew, and other birds. This coinci-dence seems significant, at least. A farmer from Wisconsin informed methat, the Blackbirds in his vicinity having been killed ofif. the white grubsincreased in number and destroyed the grass roots, so that he lost fourhundred dollars in one year from this cause.—FoRBUSH, Useful Birdsand their Protection.
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RED-WINGED BLACKBIRD(Upper Figure, Male; Lower Figure, Female)Order—Passeres Family — Icterid^e Genus—Agelaius Species—Phceniceus THE RED-WINGED BLACKBIRD By MABEL OSGOOD WRIGHT TOf Rational association ot ^nnnbon Societies EDUCATIONAL LEAFLET NO. 25 Among all the birds that return to us in April, which is the most strik-ing and most compels attention ? asked a bird-lover of a group of kindredspirits. The Fox Sparrow, said one who lived on the edge of a village wheresheltered wild fields stretched up hill to the woodlands. Every morningwhen I open my window I can hear them almost without listening. ■The Phoebe, said another, who was the owner of a pretty home,where many rambling sheds broke the way from cow-barn to pasture. The Whippoorwill, answered a third, a dweller in a remote colony ofartists in a picturesque spot of cleared woodland, where the ground droppedquickly to a stream. No, the Woodcock, said her nearest neighbor, a man whose cottagewas upon the upper edge of t

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