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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AGASSIZ ASSOCIATION Edward F. Bigelow. PresidentARCADIA, SOUND BEACH, CONNECTICUT The Nature-StudyReview SPECIAL OFFERS Membership in the School Garden Associa-tion and the Nature-Study Society,with the Review$1.25 The Elementary School Teacher . . $1.50The Nature-Study Review .... i.ooBoth for $1.60 to New Subscribers Education $3.00 The Nature-Study Review .... i.ooBoth for $3.00 to New Subscribers Back numbers for 1908, 1909, and the Review for 1912 $1.25 Subscriptions must be sent direct, not placedthrough an agency ELLIOT R. DOWNING, Editor The University of ChicagoThe School of Education CHICAGO, ILLINOIS BIRD BOOKS THE most important featureof our stock of second-handbooks, pamphlets, etc., is thedepartment relating to ORNI-THOLOGY and other branchesof NATURAL HISTORY. We shall be glad to mail,postpaid, our New Catalog No. 27,NATURE BOOKS, on receiptof five cents in postage stamps. FRANKLIN BOOKSHOP SAMUEL N. RHOADS, Proprietor920 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa. BOOKS BOUGHT f
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1. White-throated Sparrow, Adult 4. Black-chinned Sparrow, Immature 2. White-throated Sparrow, Immature 5. White-crowned Sparrow, Immature 3. Black-chinned Sparrow, Adult 6. White-crowned Sparrow, Adult CCI.B2o35G8 A BI-MONTHLY MAGAZINEDEVOTED TO THE STUDY AND PROTECTION OF BIRDS Official Organ of the Audubon Societies Vol. XIV March—April, 1912 No. 2 The Duck Hawk on the Palisades By WILLIAM COGSWELL CLARKE, New York City IT may interest many in Manhattan to know that occasionally a PeregrineFalcon, or Duck Hawk, comes to town for the Pigeons that have theirhomes on certain buildings in the city. In late December, a Falcon flew over as I crossed Fifth Avenue at Fifty-sixth Street. The sun of the early forenoon shone directly on the bird, flyingrapidly just above the housetops, upward and away. As the bird passed, therich dark plumage, barred in part with brownish yellow, was clearly in viewagainst the blue of the -v^inters sky; the rapidly beating wings and the tail,widespread for

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