Identifier: birdlore14nati (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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other berry trees for food and,as it happened, there were a lot of treesin the town which they fed from. Aboutall of the male population promptly gotguns and went for them. Hearing of this, on my return, I wentto the Aldermen, all of whom were guilty,and told them that they and all others who-were guilty would have to be fined; threeout of five submitted and paid up, but theyInsisted that the ordinance be changed to-read exactly as it is written here, with theexception that all could shoot Robins inthe town until the first of March; where-upon I resigned, as was stated. It is estimated that about four thou-sand Robins were killed during the fewdays that the birds were here. This ofcourse, does not include the county, butjust in and around the town. In the report of a trip to the coast ofVirginia by Mr. H. H. Cleaves, publishedin the November-December Bird-Lore,the dates given should have been June in-stead of July. The pictures which accom-panied the article were taken on WrackIsland.
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1. Black-headed Grosbeak, Adult male 2. Black-headed Grosbeak, Adult female 3. Black-headed Grosbeak, Young male 4. Rose-breasted Grosbeak, Young male 5. Rose-breasted Grosbeak, Adult male 6. Rose-breasted Grosbeak, Adult male, winter 7. Rose-breasted Grosbeak, Female IBirti-lore A BI-MONTHLY MAGAZINEDKVOTED TO THE STUDY AND PROTECTION OF BIRDS Vol. XIV May—June, 1912 No. 3 An Eighteen-Year Retrospect* By FRANK M. CHAPMAN A REVIEW of the progress which has been made in the study of NorthAmerican birds during the eighteen years since the first edition ofthe Handbook was published, must impress one with the fact thatit is our knowledge of living rather than of dead birds which has increased. A more exact discrimination, larger and better collections, and graduallychanged standards as to the degree of differentiation which deserves recog-nition by name, have added many forms to our Check-List, and renderedmore definite our knowledge of the relationships of others. Particularly isthis t

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