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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to the limit imposed by true handbook size andbrought fully up-to-date. In addition to possessing all the features which madethe old Handbook at once popular and authoritative,the new Handbook contains an Introduction of overloo pages on How to Study the Birds in Nature,which will be of the utmost value to all students of liv-ing birds. The subjects of distribution, migration, song, nesting,color, food, structure and habit, intelligence, and alliedproblems are here treated in a manner designed to arouseinterest and stihiulate and direct original observation. A Biographical Appendix, giving the titles to all theleading works and papers (including faunal lists) on theBirds of Eastern North America, shows just what hasbeen published on the birds of a given region, a matterof the first importance to the local student. 5«Ji Tages. Cloth, $3.50 net. Tlexible Morocco, $4.00 net D. APPLETON & COMPANY, Publishers 29-35 West 32d Street, New York NOVEMBER-DECEMBER, 1912 20c. a CopySI a Year
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COPYHPQHT. 1912, BV FHANK M. CHAPMAN irli lore November-December, 1912 CONTENTS GENERAL ARTICLES page Frontispiece in Color—Pine Grosbeak Louis Agassiz Fuertes.. The Magpies of Culebra Creek. Illustrated by the author. Edward R. Warren.. 329 Our Winter Guests Eliza F. Miller.. 333 Wild Ducks on an Oil Lake. Illustration Thos. M. Galey. . 336 A Rustic Food House. Illustrated Frederic H. Kennard. . 337 Gull Pensioners. Photographs by E. Niebergall E. L. Moseley. . 338 Tame Wild Turkeys. Illustrated by the author William T. Davis. . 342 Bird-Lores Thirteenth Christmas Bird Census 344 The Migration of North American Sparrows. Nineteenth Paper. Illustrated by Louis Agassiz Fuertes W. W. Cooke. . 345 Notes on the Plumage of North American Sparrows. Eighteenth Paper. Frank M. Chapman.. 346 NOTES FROM FIELD AND STUDY 347 Relative Number of Birds in 1912, Althea R. Sherman; Value of WinterBirds, George W. Tavenner, Jr.; A Field Mark for the Least Sandpiper,Francis H. Allen; Notes on the Bald

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