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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
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84 Bird - Lore is not present in similar clefts in the rock face of the Palisades^ in which earthfalling from above cannot lodge, it is probable that the remnants of food leftby these birds year after year have formed sufficient soil to give grass an oppor-tunity to flourish—silent but convincing testimony that Peregrines havealways, figuratively speaking, fed and raised their broods upon this shelf over-looking the Hudson. Just twenty-four years ago, a friend sketched the nestand spot occupied, that spring, by some ancestors, doubtless, of our presentfamily. The female today sitting upon her eggs turned her head so that firstone eye and then the other glared at us as we watched her. The slate-coloredback and dark wings, darker than the rock, suggested black shadows in thedepths of similar holes and clefts. The bright yellow cere and light buff plumageof the throat were interrupted by her black bill. Why should color-protectionbe necessary for so capable a bird? Of the wild creature

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