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Title: Bird-lore
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: National Association of Audubon Societies for the Protection of Wild Birds and Animals
Subjects: Birds -- Periodicals Birds -- Conservation Periodicals
Publisher: New York, National Association of Audubon Societies
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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^ one fall fully seven feet d(jwn amon^ the rocks, rollingover and over. It di<l not seim to be at all hurt or frightened.When it SLO));)(,-d falling it ;it once started back up the hill and in aminute or two was with its mother; she had seen the fall, but hadmanifested no alarm. The birds were feeding on the seeds of suchgrass and ))lants as grow at that altitude, a si)ecies of moss being,seemingly, an especial favorite with them. Finally, placing the camera where I had to lie down at full length tofocus, and where, if i had rolled t(j the lelt ;i little w;iys, 1 would havefallen a hundred feet (jr more; down the mountain, 1 put in the plate-holder, drew the slide, then, by threatening the bird, lujlding my handover her h<ad, I induced her to rise; the youngsters came out fromunder, and, watching the right lime, T caught two of them in a picture.
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Copyri,:ht, hy li. K. II IKMALE 1TARMI(;aN AND CHICKS How Ptarmigans Molt BY JONATHAN DWIGHT, Jr., M. D. ^ ■ ^ HESE widely distributed, circumpolar birds are a pleasing illus-LOifJ tration of the principle of protective coloration, even their \ It, method of molt varying so from that of the other Grouseas to adapt their plumages more perfectly to their surround-ings. In winter we find them in snow-white dress, the Willowand Rock Ptarmigans (Lagopiis lagopiis and Lagopus rupestris)and their allies having jet-black tails which are nearly concealed by thewhite coverts (Fig. r). The White-tailed Ptarmigan (Lagopus Icuciirus^,peculiar to the alpine tops of the Rocky Mountains, is absolutely white.During the long Arctic winter the birds so blend with their snowyenvironment as to be well-nigh invisible to their enemies, but with thecoming of the brief summer their white dress is no longer protective, asthey wander over the brown vegetation or gray rocks laid bare by thesun. Now they must s

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