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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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ugh the efforts of theSociety for the Protection of Birds and theSouth Australian Ornithological Associa-tion. The former, a branch of the EnglishSociety for the Protection of Birds, wasfounded in 1894, and in 1901 had a mem-bership of 1,033. Its headquarters are atAdelaide, and its secretary is Mrs. JohnPlayford, The Willows, Mitchan, Ade-laide, South Australia. It has issued sevenannual reports showing the progress of itswork. The South Australian OrnithologicalAssociation, while primarily devoted toadvancing the interests of ornithology ingeneral, also devotes attention to bird-pro-tection, and at the second annual meetingof the Australian Ornithologists Union, inNovember, 1902, took an active part in theeffort to secure the enactment of moreuniform bird laws throughout southernAustralia. Nowhere in the southern hemi-sphere has more active interest been dis-played, and nowhere have more practical re-sults in bird-protection been accomplished,than in South Australia.—T. S. Palmer.
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A BI-MONTHLY MAGAZINEDEVOTED TO THE STUDY AND PROTECTION OF BIRDS Official Organ of the Audubon Societies Vol. V July —August, 1903 No. 4 The Bird-Life of Cobbs Island BY FRANK M. CHAPMAN With photographs from nature by the author THE Atlantic coast, from New Jersey to North Carolina, is borderedby an outlying chain of islets. Many of them are mere sandbars, more or less grown with coarse grasses, and, on their westernsides, fringed by marshes which reach out into the bays separating themfrom the mainland. Useless for agricultural purposes, these islands have a high commercialvalue only when they have become the sites of summer resorts; butwhen they have not suffered from an irruption of hotels and cottagesthey are, as a rule, tenanted only by an occasional fisherman or thecrews of Hfe-saving stations, whose presence does not materially altertheir primeval conditions. Lacking the natural foes of birds which exist on the mainland, thesebarren islets make ideal breeding-grounds for bi

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