Identifier: birdlore181916nati (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 Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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not the Barn Owls. Even a rat caught in a trap failed to entice these birds,though several Screech Owls responded at once. 96 Bird - Lore But who has stirred a Barn Owl? Over the dew-laden meadows he standsguard, or perhaps at the edge of the moonlit corn-fields, waiting for the onlyprey that seems to interest him. He knows the country like a book, the run-ways of the meadow mouse, the house mouses path from corn shock to cornshock, the moles early morning starting point. Under the old buttonball tree the broods of young chickens ran from earlymorning to night. The owner felt that the large Owls were a menace to hisflock and watched for them with a gun. But, with the falL of the old tree anda study of their food, a new light has spread to every farm in that vicinity. I heard the young Owls last rasp on October i6; it was full of the weirdpower which thrills one in the dark hours. A few minutes later, a big bird flewlow toward the orchard—the young Owls had taken to hunting at last.
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The Migration of North American Birds Compiled by Prof. W. W. Cooke, Chiefly from Data in the Biological Survey With a drawing by Louis Agassiz Fuertes (See Frontispiece) THE BUSH-TIT All of the forms of Bush-Tits in the United States are non-migratory. Thepresent species, which is better known by the name of the Least Bush-Tit, isconfined to the Pacific Coast, where it ranges from northern Lower Californiato southern British Columbia. This is the range of the typical form (Psaltri-parus minimus minimus), while a subspecies called the California Bush-Tit(Psaltriparus minimus californicus) occurs over much of eastern Californiaeast of the Sacramento Valley, from the southern end of the Sierras nearly tothe Oregon line. A third form, or sub-species, the Grinda Bush-Tit (Psaltri-parus minimus grindce), is confined to the southern end of Lower California. THE LEAD-COLORED BUSH-TIT The southern boundary of the range of the Lead-colored Bush-Tit (Psaltri-parus plumbeus) is found in western

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