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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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cA Companion toThe Travels ofBirdsby the same cAuthor. OUR WINTER BIRDS By FRANK M. CHAPMAN The extraordinary, but not unexpected receptionaccorded to Dr. Chapmans little volume on TheTravelsof Birds has led to the preparation of this work, whichis designed to form an introduction to the study of birds.The author believes that winter is the best season inwhich to begin the study of ornithology, for the reasonthat there are fewer birds and they may be more easilyidentified, and they are generally hungry and conse-quently more approachable. The birds have beenseparated into three easily-grasped groups of field birds,forest birds, and home birds, and in an entertainingmanner the author discusses their habits and chiefcharacteristics. There are numerous illustrations. i2mo. Cloth, $1.50 net per copy. By mail, $1.60.Also an edition for use as a school reader. This is an Appleton Book D. APPLETON & COMPANY Publishers 35 West 32d Street New York
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c/ostsu^er^s COWBIRD. ADULT MAl.E^ 3. COWBIRD, YOUNG COWBIRD. FEMALE 4. RED-EYED COWBIRD, FEMALE 5. RED-EYED < (IWBIRD. MALE A BI-MONTHLY MAGAZINE DEVOTED TO THE STUDY AND PROTECTION OF BIRDS Official Organ of The Audubon Societies Vol. XXII November—December, 1920 No. 6 A Partridge Don Quixote By HOWARD H. CLEAVES Photographs by the Author, Reproduced through Courtesy of New York State Conservation Commission BILLY is a Don Quixote among Partridges. But instead of engagingin combat with windmills he goes forth to battle with motor tractors.Before news of him reached us he had for months been hurling challengeafter challenge at his superior adversary. The sector held by Billy was acertain tract of woodland on the farm of A. H. Armstrong, not far fromSchenectady, N. Y. As we neared the farm by automobile on the State Road,it seemed to us that the territory was not what would be pointed out by anexperienced hunter as good Grouse-cover. There were potatoes and variousgrains growing

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