Identifier: birdlore241922nati (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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ugh wild he was examinedin a good light at a moderate distance with8-power binoculars. The sides of the breastwere very light and showed no buff. Thecall-notes were the same as those of the twobirds seen lower down. The writer is wellacquainted with our other Thrushes and hasseen the Bicknells during migration. In thiscase there was an excellent opportunity tocompare the call-notes of this Thrush withthose of the Hermit and Olive-backed.Both Mr. Pope and the writer believe thebird to be Bicknells Thrush. and the songs of White-throated Sparrowsand Yellow-bellied Flycatchers. Apparentlythe song season was over at these high alti-tudes. The thickness of the scrub made itimpossible to locate the birds unless theywere calling. In 1922 the writer hopes tomake a trip to this region earlier in theseason.—Edward H. Pekkins, Colby College,Wakrville, Maine. A Robins NestThe Robin shown in this picture is one ofa pair that tried to build their first nestwhere this one is placed. After they had
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ROBIN AT NESTPhotographed by R. H. Jacobs, Brocktoa, Mass. On August I, Mr. Pope and the writerclimbed the mountain again, this time ac-companied by Dr. Glover S. Allen of theBoston Society of Natural History. Twonights were spent camping on the mountain.The weather was cold and part of the timevery windy. We saw or heard nothing ofBicknells or any other Thrush on the moun-tain top. Even the Olive-backs of the lowerforest were silent. The only bird-notes heardwere the calls of Kinglets, Siskins, Juncos,Myrtle Warblers, and Broad-winged Hawks been working two days, a wind-storm de-stroyed the results of their labors and theywent to another tree and built a new nest.Meanwhile, I put up the shelter which is seenin the picture. After the young ha/1 left thefirst nest, the birds came back to the exactspot where they had suffered disaster andbuilt a nest for the second brood within afoot of the shelter. The photograph wasmade July i, and the following day theyoung were pushed from the nest.

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