Identifier: birdlore151913nati (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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iar group ofbirds on the front cover, in place of theold design so long familiar to readers ofThe Auk. Within the covers are many articlesand items of interest to bird students andothers. In Some More Labrador NotesDr. C. W. Townsend tells of a trip up theNatashquan River illustrating it withhalf-tones of the country. Prof. H. L.Clarke in Notes on the Panama Thrush-Warbler concludes, largely on anatomicalgrounds, that the bird is a Tanager. Dr.R. W. Shufeldt, in Contributions toAvian Palaeontology, discusses the status IS) n6 Bird-Lore of fossil Wild Turkeys with a plate show-ing bone fragments, and also takes upthe fossil birds of the Oregon desert. As an example of careful observationsconcentrated on a familiar species, wecommend Dr. W. H. Bergtolds A study of the House Finch. Well-directedefforts of this sort contribute much to ourgeneral knowledge, and are within thereach of every bird student. One of thestriking facts here brought out is that,in spite of great mortality among the
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COMMON TERN AND NESTFrom Bickertons Home-Life of the Terns. Courtesy of Witherby & Co. Book News and Reviews 117 young from various causes, the species asa whole thrives and increases. Probablyits worst enemy is the English Sparrowwhich, according to our author, is heldresponsible for sixteen per cent of themortality. Among Eighteen Species of Birds Newto the Pribilof Islands, recorded by Prof.B. W. Evermann, four are new to theNorth American list. Mr. W. S. Brooks,at p. no, also records a species new to thelist, viz., the Bahama Duck (Pcecilonettabahamensis). Under the title An Essex County(Mass.) Ornithologist, Dr. G. M. Allenpublishes much of interest from the note-books of the late Benj. F. Damsell, anornithologist who for upward ot thirtyyears hid his light under a bushel. Dr.F. Overton and Mr. F. Harper are pioneersin Bird Photography by the DirectColor Process, and praise the autochromeplate and its possibilities. Miss A. R.Sherman contributes notes on the Caro-linia Avi-fa

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