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Title: Bird lore
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: National Committee of the Audubon Societies of America National Association of Audubon Societies for the Protection of Wild Birds and Animals National Audubon Society
Subjects: Birds Birds Ornithology
Publisher: New York City : Macmillan Co.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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udy. He illustrated his remarks withnumerous views of young birds, nests andeggs and emphasized the fact that thepoetry in birds cannot be appreciated with-out familiarity with them and their habits.After the lecture Mr. Olds explained theobjects of the society and advantages ofmembership. The meetings outlined for the season in-clude a public lecture in March by Dr.Francis Herrick, members meetings inFebruary and April, followed by field ex-cursions in May. Jeanie Mary Patten, Secretary. Meeting of the Audubon NationalCommittee A meeting of the National Committee ofthe Audubon Societies will be held at theAmerican Museum of Natural History, NewYork City, at 10 oclock on the morning ofApril 4. A New Audubon SocietyProf. T. Gilbert Pearson, of the StateNormal and Industrial College, at Greens-boro, North Carolina, writes that a NorthCarolina Audubon Society was formed atthat place on March 11, with a chartermembership of 140. Details of the Societysorganization will be announced later.
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NEST AND EGGS OF CHESTNUT-SIDED WARBLERFrom nature, by A. Radclyffe Dugmore jgtrli^iUre A BI-MONTHLY MAGAZINEDEVOTED TO THE STUDY AND PROTECTION OF BIRDS Official Organ of the Audubon Societies Vol. IV May —June, 1902 No. 3 The Increase of the Chestnut-sided Warbler BY A. RADCLYFFE DUGMORE With photographs from Nature by the Author ylNY one who observes the birds of a locality for many years in succes-/; sion will notice that certain birds become more abundant, andothers less so, as years go by, and that while one bird will be verycommon for several years, there will perhaps be a year when this particularspecies will be comparatively scarce. In the region about South Orange,New Jersey, particularly the part known as the Mountain, the Field andSong Sparrows are usually very abundant during the breeding season, butlast year (1901) they were scarcely as common as the Blue-wingedWarblers and Maryland Yellow-throats. Brown Thrashers, also, wereless common than they have been during my st

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