Identifier: birdloreas12nati (find matches)
Title: Bird-lore
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: National Association of Audubon Societies for the Protection of Wild Birds and Animals
Subjects: Birds -- Periodicals Birds -- Conservation Periodicals
Publisher: New York, National Association of Audubon Societies
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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- birds andwild game animals. This, it will be noticed, is a practicalendorsement of the principles containedin the Weeks Bill, now pending in Con-gress, and which has for its object theplacing in the hands of Federal authori-ties the responsibility of making regula-tions governing the killing and dispositionof those migratory game and non-gamebirds now suffering terrible destructionbecause of the inadequacy of the presentconflicting state laws. The endorsement also is given to thegrowing policy of the government to pro-tect the game animals still to be found inthe National Parks and National ForestReserves. In addition to Mr. Cha()man and thewriter, the National .Association wasofficially represented by Mr, W. W.Grant, of New York, and Prof. D. Lange,of ^Minneapolis.—T. G. P.
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ttt fftaivx ^tr^i 1. Chestxut-collared Loxgspur, ad. male. Summer. 4. IjApland Longspur, ad. male, Summer. 2. Chestnut-collared LoKGSprR, male, ^yinte^. 5. Laplaxd Loxgspur, female. 3. Chestnut-collared Longspur, female. 6. Lapland Longspur, male, ^Vinter. (One-half Natural Size.) A BI-MONTHLY MAGAZINEDEVOTED TO THE STUDY AND PROTECTION OF BIRDS Organ of the Vol. XII November—December, 1910 No. 6 A Chickadee Home By CRAIG S. THOMS. Vermillion. S. D.With photographs by the author FOR several years I had been trying to induce a pair of Chickadees tobuild their nest in my yard, where I could watch them in their homeHfe. They boarded with me in the bleak winters, but, notwithstand-ing all my alluring boxes, and hollow-wood chunks, the call of the wildswept them away to orchard or grove at the first peep of spring. But the spring of 1909 brought me good fortune. A cherry tree that stoodabout fifty feet from my study window grew from the ground double, thatis, by two trunks, one of which

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