Identifier: audubonmag12188789nati (find matches)
Title: The Audubon magazine
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: National Audubon Society
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: (New York, N.Y. : Forest and Stream Publishing Co.)
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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rnithologists vs. Collectors , 20 A Young Ornithologist 21 Clouds of Birds 42 Saving the Tree 64 GenreAl Spinner and the English Sparrow 64 Preservation of the Yellowstone Park 65 vi Contents. Page For the Protection of Small Birds 86 Nests 86 Audubon Work among the Indians 87 The White Ant ■. . g6 Unusual Nesting Sites 106 Birds in Disguise 107, 151 Warrens Ledger 108 No More Birds on Bonnets 108 Seals, Sea Lions, Sea Gulls 109 The Mockingbird and the Sparrow 109 Birds on the Increase 126 The Poets Appeal 126 The Magazine as an Educator 126 A Trip to the Yosemite Valley 150 Song of the Whippoorwill 152 A True Incident 153 Swallows at Sea 153 Bird Language 174 Mans Dependance on the Lower Animals 190 Re-introduction of Feather Millinery 207 Sketches of Montana 214 Report of Dr. Merriam 237 Bird Portraits -. 240 Letter to the Young Members of the Audubon Society 240 Evas Equestrianis.m 252 Mississippi Valley Bird Migration 257 English Press on Feather Millinery 264 Discontinuance 262
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A GREEN WOODPECKER. ANOTHER OF THE EARLY DRAWINGS OK AUDUBON, The Audubon Magazine. Vol. II. FEBRUARY, 1888. No. I. AUDUBONIAN SKETCHES. SHORTLY after my articles appearedin The Auk, I was favored with a very-kind letter from Mr. John Henry Gurney,plre, of Northrepps, Norwich, England, whopresented nie with a fine and large photo-graph of Audubon, taken from the famousoil painting which hangs in the palace atSt. Petersburg, Russia. This painting wasevidently copied from a photograph ofAudubon, the original of which latter is nowin my possession, it having been presentedto me with the utmost generosity by Mr.Henry K. Coale, of Chicago, the Presidentof the Ridgway Ornithological Club of thatcity. The original photograph is now beforeme, and I should judge from it that Audu-bon at the time it was taken must have beenconsiderably over fifty years of age, as hishair is nearly white, while his side-whiskersare entirely so. He wears a loose, semi-standing shirt collar to that garment, with-o

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