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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s in a town where nature-study is not carried on in the schools, whereonly a few people care either to study or to protect the native birds, and where gunnersshoot birds by the wholesale for sport. Aside from the great pleasure he is deriving byfeeding and attracting bird-neighbors, he is doing a work of which any public-spiritedcitizen should be proud. Note the observation of the feeding-habits of the Chickadee.—A. H. W.) Can the Starling Resist the Cold as Well as the Robin? E. A. BurUngame, of Providence, R. I., reports that about the middle ofFebruary he picked up a dead Starling at Bristol Highland, R. I., on a porch,where it had flown, apparently for shelter. The weather had been extremelycold for this locality the week preceding. It is possible that this Starling wasone of the brood hatched out last spring at South Swansea, Mass., which isonly five or six miles distant from Bristol Highland. So far as known, this isthe second record of the Starling in Rhode Island.—A^ H. W.
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DOWNY (figs. 1 and 2) and HAIRY WOODPECKERS (figr. 3.) Order—Pici Family—Pic td-E Genus—Dryobates Species—Pubescens (Downy) Species—ViLLOSUS (Hairy) National Association of Audubon Societies Educational Leaflet, No. 52 THE HAIRY AND DOWNY WOODPECKERS By ALICE HALL WALTER Tl^e Rational SLQ^ociation of audubon ^ociitm EDUCATIONAL LEAFLET NO. 55 Of the three hundred and fifty kinds of Woodpeckers which occur „. ... throughout the world, with the e.xception of Madagascar and the regionDistribution , , ,. ; . , , . , . , ; . of Australia, twentj-four species and thirty-two subspecies are found in North America, besides two species which are accidental. The genusDryobates, to which the Hairy and Downy Woodpeckers belong, is much subdivided,and, for this reason, the geographical distribution of the species and subspecies com-prising it is a most interesting subject of study. One may travel from Panama andthe Gulf of Mexico all through the wooded parts of North America, almost to

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