Identifier: birdlore101908nati (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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and geological, and with it a free mingling of the his-torical, the romantic and the adventurous. There is, however, a commendableabsence of the . . . exaggeration of the human-like qualities in animals. Along with this popularity the scientific accuracy of the book is well recognized,and it has been adopted as a book of instruction in colleges. Nowhere else is sointelligently traced the relation between the past (fossil history) and the present ofthe families in this most important of all animal tribes; nowhere else will be foundexplained many curious customs, such as the origin of the habit of storing winterfood, how the opossum came to play possum, etc. By the same author WILD NEIGHBORS: Outdoor Studies inthe United States With numerous photographic illustrations. Cloth, $1.50 Such pleasant books as this of Mr. Ingersolls are delightful to both old andyoung, and ought to be put into the hands of every lad on the farm.—DetroitFree Press. THE MACMILLAN COMPANY, PUBLISHERS NEW YORK
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M . CHAf fitrtJ-Lftre March-April, 1908 CONTENTS GENERAL ARTICLES page Frontispiece in Color —Hammonds, Wrights, Gray, Buff-breasted, andWestern Flycatchers Louis Agassiz Fuertes.. The Home-Life of the American Egret. Illustrated Frank M. Chapman.. 59 The Background of Ornithology Spencer Trotter.. 6S The Nest in the Gutter. Illustrated Gilbert H. Trajton .. 72 Mallard on Nest. Illustration George Shiras, 3d... 76 The Migration of Flycatchers. Third Paper. Illustrated with colored plates from drawings by Louis Agassiz Fuertes and Bruce Horsfall .... W. W. Cooke.. 77 The Common Names of North American Birds Edward H. Perkins.. 78 NOTES FROM FIELD AND STUDY 79 The Value of the Starling, Wilbur F. Smith; A Strange Friendship, illus-trated, A. H. Schippang; Trustful Birds, R. P. Sharpies; The Most SouthernStarling Record, Louis B. Bishop; A Brown Creepers Mistake, ClarenceM. Arnold; Notes on Kirtlands Warbler, A. D. Tinker; A Winter Rose-breasted Grosbeak, illustrated, Clarence D. Brown

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