Identifier: birdlore19nati (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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AUDUBON HOUSE, ON THE ASSOCIATIONS BIRD SANCTUARY AT AMSTON, CONNECTICUT. 426 Bird- Lore Further to promote the new Experiment Station work, Mr. Charles M.Ams, the owner of the tract, has generously put at the disposal of the Associa-tion a comfortable two-story residence, furnished throughout, now known asthe Audubon House. Collections of birds and of ornithological literature,including the publications of this Association, have been installed, and thehouse has been kept open the past summer as headquarters of the NationalAssociation, where visitors have been welcomed, given opportunity for study,and thence shown the practical work carried out on the 3-square-mile tract. In order to make it possible for visitors to remain at Amston to study and
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SCALED QUAIL IN BREEDING-PEN ON NATIONAL ASSOCIATIONS BIRD SANCTUARYAND EXPERIMENT STATION, AMSTON, CONN.Photograph by H. K. Job. enjoy the bird-life, there having been no local hostelry, Mr. Ams has enlargedand renovated a former boarding-house, at a cost of $7,000, and had the newenterprise opened last August as Amston Inn, with plain furnishings, good food,and moderate prices. Bird-loving visitors and excursions of Bird Clubs havealready utilized it. From this Experiment Station, as well as from other sources, a large amountof valuable data is being gathered for use in demonstration work, in corres-pondence with inquirers, and for publications of the Association or throughother channels. Much of this is given out through various magazine and news-paper articles, which helps to reach and interest a larger pubHc. During the Reports of Field Agents 427 year Circular No. 5 has been published, summarizing the work of this Depart-ment, which proves useful in answering inquiries, thus sav

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