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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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r group ofbirds on the front cover, in place of theold design so long familiar to readers ofThe Auk. Within the covers are many articlesand items of interest to bird students andothers. In Some More Labrador NotesDr. C. W. Townsend tells of a trip up theXatashquan River illustrating it withhalf-tones of the country. Prof. H. L.Clarke in Notes on the Panama Thrush-Warbler concludes, largely on anatomicalgrounds, that the bird is a Tanager. Dr.R. W. Shufeldt, in Contributions toAvian Palaeontology, discusses the status IIS) ii6 Bird-Lore of fossil Wild Turkeys with a plalc show-ing bone fragments, and also takes upthe fossil birds of the Oregon desert. As an example of careful observationsconcentrated on a familiar species, wecommend Dr. W. H. Bergtolds A study of the House Finch. Well-directedefforts of this sort contribute much to ourgeneral knowledge, and are within thereach of every bird student. One of thestriking facts here brought out is that,in spite of great mortality among the
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COMMU.X TERX AXU NESTfrom Bicktrtons Homc-Liie of the Terns. Courtesy of Witherby & Co. Book News and Reviews young from \;irious causes, Uic species asa whole thrives ;ind increases. Probablyits worst enemy is the English Sparrowwhich, according to our author, is heldresponsible for sixteen per cent of I liemortality. Among Eighteen Species of Birds Newto the Pribilot Islands, recorded by Prof.B. W. Evcrmann, four are new to theNorth American list. Mr. W. S. Brooks,at p. no, also records a species new to thelist, viz., the Bahama Duck (Pceciloneltahahamensis). Under the title An Essex County(Mass.) Ornithologist, Dr. G. M. Allenpublishes much of interest from the note-books of the late Benj. F. Uamsell, anornithologist who for upward ot thirtyyears hid his light under a bushel. Dr.F. Overton and Mr. F. Harper are pioneersin Bird Photography by the DirectColor Process, and praise the autochromeplate and its possibilities. Miss A. R.Sherman contributes notes on the Caro-linia Avi-f

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