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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elf and labeled. This sideline has been very attractive, leading up to the important teaching that plants,either in flower or fruit, are necessary to bird-life. It will thus be seen thatthe bypaths opened through bird-study and -protection are many and varied.—Charlotte A. Lacey, Secretary. District of Columbia.—Our Society was twenty-five years old last Maybeing the eighth Society to be formed in the United States. On May 18, 1897,twelve persons met at the residence of Mrs. John Dewhurst Patten and formedthe Audubon Society of the District of Columbia. Of these twelve, nine arestill members of our Society. During these twenty-five years we have had twopresidents, three treasurers, and two secretaries. This year, at our annualmeeting, an enthusiastic audience listened to Dr. A. A. Allens lecture onBirds and their Relation to Man. Our five bird-study classes had a totalenrolment of 177 this spring; of these, 9 were teachers, 18 Girl Scouts, 3 CampFire Girls, and 17 were Boy Scouts.
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BLACK POND, NEAR WASHINGTON, D. C, WHERE, ON MAY 27, ig22, MEMBERS OFTHE DISTRICT AUDUBON SOCIETY COUNTED 59 SPECIES OF WILD BIRDS 42 2 Bird-Lore The classes were followed by six field meetings, and though several of theSaturdays were stormy, ioq persons went on the walks and 128 species wereidentified. Our greatest excitements this year were the appearance of a flockof Evening Grosbeaks, never before recorded in the District of Columbia,and the Brazilian Cardinal which for weeks dined at Professor Bartschsfeeding-station. It is probable that it had escaped from the Zoo. On April3, the eighty-fifth anniversary of John Burroughs birthday, our Societyassisted at a memorial tree planting. One of our members told me that her aunt picked up a young bird whichhad fallen from the nest. As she could not put it back, she brought it up byhand. Its favorite perch was on her shoulder, with its head tucked underher collar. When she had callers he would be jealous and peck her cheek.She called him

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