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Identifier: birdlore141912nati (find matches)
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 Institution Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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use being fed by an adult male, and feltconfident that it was one of those from the nest I had been watching. Inever saw more than one of the young birds at a time after they left the nest,and did not see the female feeding the young except in the nest. A few dayslater, I climbed the tree and brought down the nest, which was about 24 feetfrom the ground and about 4 feet from the trunk of the tree and 7 feet fromthe window. It was a pretty little nest, with a ring of feathers, mostly chicken,around the edge, which curled up over the hollow of the nest, and thus pro-bably served in a way as a protection to the young birds. It was quitecompactly built with twigs of conifers, grass, rootlets, and a few hairs. Theyoung bird which I photographed showed plainly the peculiarities of thenestling plumage of the Myrtle Warbler, having a white breast very distinctlystreaked with black, whitish wing-bars, and the back brown streaked withblack; a very different looking bird from the handsome adult.
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PHOTOGRAPH OF A CROW BY HIMSELFTaken at Portsmouth, N.H.,September 7, i9oS,.by means of a device invented by H. R. Carey (17) Bird-Lores Twelfth Christmas Bird Census IN the northern States, at least, the weather on Christmas Day of 1911was far more favorable for bird students than for birds I While the excep-tionally open season has induced some species to remain with us, north oftheir usual winter range, their presence by no means compensates for thealmost entire lack of those rare and more irregular winter birds towardswhose coming we always look forward with a peculiar pleasure. Santa Barbara, California, again appears to be the resort most favored bybirds in the United States during the winter. Last years census from thislocality of 76 species, recorded by J. H. Bowles, W. Leon Dawson and WatsonSnyder, is not in the running with the remarkable list of 100 species observedthis year by W. Leon Dawson and Stewart Edward White. Indeed, we doubtif so large a number of birds has hereto

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