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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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5, but did notsee a Peregrine. Fearing that too many people now frequent this locality, wemade several trips to the more remote Ruckmans Point, where we also failedto find any Falcons. On our second visit to Clinton Point, on March 19, theday raw and snowy, we were greeted by the welcome and familiar sight ofa Peregrine diving from a dead, weather-worn cedar-tree, projecting from theface of the cHlT. On April 9, the male flew from the cliff to his favorite tree,uttering his call, and sat in full view. While perched, the sound that he maderesembled a whistling scream. These birds solicitude for their nest, as evi-denced by their loud calls, tends to accomplish anything but its concealment. This day, looking into a deep horizontal opening half-way up the cliff, thefemale Falcon was discovered sitting on her nest. We watched her with ourglass for some time. The bed upon which she had placed her eggs was borderedin front with green grass and overhung by projecting rocks. Since vegetation
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84 Bird - Lore is not present in similar clefts in the rock face of the Palisades, in which earthfalling from above cannot lodge, it is probable that the remnants of food leftby these birds year after year have formed sufficient soil to give grass an oppor-timity to flourish—silent but convincing testimony that Peregrines havealways, figuratively speaking, fed and raised their broods upon this shelf over-looking the Hudson. Just twenty-four years ago, a friend sketched the nestand spot occupied, that spring, by some ancestors, doubtless, of our presentfamily. The female today sitting upon her eggs turned her head so that firstone eye and then the other glared at us as we watched her. The slate-coloredback and dark wings, darker than the rock, suggested black shadows in thedepths of similar holes and clefts. The bright yellow cere and light buff plumageof the throat were interrupted by her black bill. Why should color-protectionbe necessary for so capable a bird? Of the wild creature

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