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Identifier: birdlore181916nati (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 Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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Fentress have been cross-ing Clear Fork of Cumberland into thiscounty at night, and killing many of thebirds on their roosts along White OakCreek, almost within the very precinctsof this town, but no arrests had been madeuntil last night when nine of the raiderswere caught with the goods on them.They had more than sixty birds in theirsacks, so that the fines will amount to over$300, the penalty being $5 for each bird.The guilty parties, being well known, wereallowed to return home on their own re-cognizance, but the fines will undoubt-edly be enforced, as both the state andfederal authorities are determined to put astop to these cruel and lawless proceed-ings. The prosecution of the cases will besupervised by the ofl&cials of the AudubonSociety, who have these matters in charge. Upon learning these facts, the Asso-ciation immediately telegraphed its localrepresentatives to take up the matter, andit is sincerely to be hoped that the peopleof that region will be taught such a lesson
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A FISH HAWKS lA.MiLVFrom an etching by Will Simmons (2IS) 2l6 Bird - Lore by the courts that they will let the Robinsalone hereafter, lest something worse hap-pen to them. Bird-Study in Michigan Most of the universities and larger col-leges maintain summer schools at which biology is taught in a more or less practical way, and these often afford excellent local opportunities to bird-students. One of the most notable of these vacation courses is that to be had at the Biological Station of

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