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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pipers; but, if we are to have abook name, let us compromise on UplandSandpiper and relieve the bird of itsBartramian handicap. Personally, we should like to see thename Semi-palmated Plover, by whichno one but an ornithologist calls thebird, abolished for the more generallyknown and more descriptive Ring-neckedPlover. The fact that several specieshave ringed necks should not deprive usof the use of the name, while the RingPlover of our List occupies too limitedan area in America to be considered inthis connection. All the various species of Partridge,which are invariably called Quail bythe people of the country they inhabit,should, we think, be called Quail; theGreen-crested Flycatcher should begiven its former name of Acadian Fly-catcher, the Leucostictes should beknown as Snow Finches, LouisianaTanager should become Western Tana-ger; for obvious reasons, the Water-Thrush, Northern Water-Thrush. andthe formal Wilsons Thrush may wellbe abandoned for the more poetic andsuitable Veery.
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GOLDEN —AND RUBY —CROWNED KINGLETSOrder —Passeres Family —SylviId^ Genus—Regulus Species — Satrapa and calendula THE GOLDEN-CROWNED KINGLET THE RUBY-CROWNED KINGLET By MABEL OSGOOD WRIGHT W$i iRational SLteotiation ot SLububon &ocictie0 EDUCATIONAL LEAFLET NO. 34 When October comes, the fall migration is in full swing. The trees are fullof the bustle of comings and goings, and the morning sun, that now gives littleheat before eight oclock, draws many night-travelers from their seclusion topreen and spread their feathers after a dew-bath in the grass. Aside from call-notes, more or less musical, there is an absence of real song, save in the case ofthe Meadowlark, White-throat or Song Sparrow, whose cheerfulness is uncon-querable, and the murmurs of the young of the year, who are often impelledto try their voices before their first spring. As the birds of summer vanish, weturn eagerly to those that may be with us in the cold season,Winter Birds and are divided technicall

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