Identifier: birdlore141912nati (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 Institution Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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. In a letter wliich aicomp.iniiil Ilu- ion- Air. Clinton (•. ,\l)bott reports .1 colony tribution, we le.im ih.it the donor is at liordentown, New Jersey, whiih he dee)ih interesied in llu- work of wih! life \isited yearly from iSoo to 100;. In its l>i\>lccl ion, -lud believes I h.It llie N.ilioii.il luosl populous louilil ii>n, he states that Association of .Vudubon Societies is doing there were 1 so or more m-sts. The more good work for this caiise than any farmer on w lu>se l.ind this colony was other organization. situated was well dispi>sed towanls the \Ve regret not being able 10 publish the birds and, while obligcil to cut some wood, name of this public-spirited member, who, took onl\ trees from the border of the through modesty, has absolutely refu.sed swami) and, as f.ir as possible, avoided to give us this pleasure, lull details disturbing the birds. He also threatened regarding the i>roposeiI expenditure of to shoot an>one whom he found attempt- (70)
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il£W ir* i.^j^jili^ir 72 Bird- Lore ing to molest them. Mr. Abbott alsoreports a colony in the vicinity of Mon-tauk Point, Long Island, which may havecontained fifty nests. The character ofthe nesting-place was such that even anapproximately accurate estimate wasrendered very difficult. Mr. FrancisHarper reports small colonies of five orsix birds each, scattered at intervals alongthe south shore of Long Island; that agroup of nesting birds has been reportedto him from Walkill, Ulster County, NewYork, and still another at Honeoye Lake,near Rochester, New York. Mr. P. B. Philipp reports that in 1910there was a large colony located in amaple swamp near Great Neck, LongIsland, and not five miles from theRoslyn colony. He does not attempt to estimate the number of birds. He alsoreports a colony back of Greenwich, Con-necticut, of which, however, he has noparticulars. Mr. Henry W. Shoemaker has recentlywritten the Association concerning anesting colony of Night Herons in a groveof large tr

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