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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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riods of three months each. Teachershave written very appreciative letters re-specting their use and the benefits derivedfrom them by the children. Any schoolmay obtain the use of a library by com-municating with Miss Hilda Justice,Clappier street, Germantown, Philadelphia. During the past year we have been in re-ceipt of numerous complaints, relative toillegal shooting of insectivorous birds,notably Flickers and Robins, with the ideathat the officers of the society can cause thearrest of the gunners. In order to show ex-actly how these arrests can be obtained, wewould call the attention of our members tothe following: The constable of each township or bor-ough in Pennsylvania is the person author-ized by law to arrest violators of the birdlaws, and he must make a report under oathto the Court of Quarter Sessions of hiscounty at each term, of all violations oc-curring in his township or brought to hisnotice. Members of the Audubon Society wish-ing to have violators of the law arrested
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A BI-MONTHLY MAGAZINEDEVOTED TO THE STUDY AND PROTECTION OF BIRDS Official Organ of the Audubon Societies Vol. V May —June, 1903 No. 3 The Tortugas Tern Colony BY DR. JOSEPH THOMPSON. U. S. N. With photographs from nature by Dr. Alfred G. Mayer; reproduced by permission of theMuseum of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences ABOUT eighty miles to the westward of Key West, the Florida Keys^_ terminate in a group of seven small islands, two of which. Logger-head and Garden Key, are inhabited. Loggerhead Island isso called because of the great number of Loggerhead turtles (Thalessochelyscaretta) that visit it in the spring for the purpose of digging holes in thesand and depositing their eggs; Garden Key is the site of Fort Jefferson,one of the largest fortresses in the country. One mile southwest of Garden Key is a small island, about twohundred yards long by seventy-five wide, and in no place more thanfour feet above high tide. The vegetation consists of a few scrub palm, trees, a

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