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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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oung upon another Key, and that, by systematically feeding it,they were able soon to give it its freedom, without the Heron showing any desireto leave their fishing station, where it voluntarily remained throughout the year. The extent of the taming of this beautiful Heron was such that had I beenone of the familiar fishermen, with a fish in my hand instead of a camera, T prob-ably could have handed the fisli to the bird. Now I venture the assertion that there are today few American birds that willbe found as wild and as shy as the Great White Heron. Hunted by man, almostto the point of extermination, the majority of the remaining individuals of thisspecies have been driven to the most inaccessible localities. It accordingly seems to me that the accompanying photograph of this rareand beautiful bird, which I took upon the occasion mentioned, offers a strikingillustration of what can be expected from the continued kind treatment of any ofour wild creatures.
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GREAT WHITE HERONIhotographed by Norman McCIintock (2) Breeding of the American Crossbill By P. B. PEABODY Willi rhot()Krai>lis l.y tlu- Autlior DATA for the breeding of the Cro>sl)ilIs of \orth Ameiic ;i are so diffusivelyshelved in the great libraries of our country, and the statements oflumber-jacks (thus called in the West), as given in a late numberof Bird-Lore, are so inadequate and so misleading, that the writer has thoughtit no impertinence to give the readers of Bird-Lori: the summary of notes thathave been a-gathering during the past five years. In the West we see the Crossbill(Loxia cnrvirostra strkklandi) only in July and August. It comes down fromthe regions of the conifers, at that time, accomi)anied by its recently fledgedyoung, to fatten on the seeds of sunflowers and other like plants. (It is, of course,the varying and local character of the most of the conifers that makes all Cross-bills prone to wander.) From the (manuscript) pages of my Nesting Ways ofNorth A

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