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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raphs. Several new features whichwe are not free yet to announce are in preparation. The September numberwill surprise and delight. It has taken a few months to find ourselves. But we can tolerate thedelay in the satisfaction that we are doing the finding. It takes a little timeto get under full headway. By the September issue we will have had that time. The magazine just as it is in June, July and August is of higher gradethan any other nature magazine ever published. It fits the present increasinginterest. We have full confidence that those who know the magazine agreewith that statement. Neither the Prospectus nor any form of announcement can fully portraythe merits of the magazine. We ask a fair trial and your hearty cooperation.Let the magazine speak for itself and let us have the benefit of your suggestionand criticisms. Single copy, 15c. One year, $1,50 Less than one year at single copy rates, with the exception that to newsubscribers only is offered a four months trial for 50c.
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- /9 9 8 - 1. Kingbird 3. Western Wood Pewee 2. Wood Pewee 4. Gray Kingbird (one-hai.f natural size) !6trlJ*tore A BI-MONTHLY MAGAZINE DBVOTED TO THE STUDY AND PROTECTION OF BIRDS Official Ohoan of thi Audubon Iociitiii Vol. X July—August, 1908 No. 4 The Fish Hawks of Gardiners Island By FRANK M. CHAPMAN With photographs by the author SINCE the publication of Alexander Wilsons American Ornithologythe Fish Hawks of Gardiners Island have figured in the literature of or-nithology, and it is characteristic of their delightful home, that, owing tothe preserving influences of insular life, the birds are apparently nearly as abund-ant there today as they were a hundred years ago. The volume (Vol. V) of Wilsons work in which the Fish Hawk is treated ap-peared in 1812. In it the Mr. Gardiner who was then proprietor of the island, isquoted as saying that there were at least three hundred nests of Fish Hawks thathave young. ... Today I estimate the number at between one hundred andfifty and tw

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