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Identifier: birdlore17nati (find matches)
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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ly turned warmer, and this seemed to bethe sign of the first wave of migration. The first Robin that I saw was on Feb. 14; the first Bluebird, Feb. 13,and the first Turkey Buzzard, Feb. 14. I saw several Herring Gulls on Feb. 5,and several Flickers on Feb. 13. On Feb. 20 I found the last years nest of aRed-eyed Vireo, and, as it was in good condition and I lacked one in my smallcollection (I keep all old nests that are in good condition), I climbed up andsoon brought it down. In it I found the skeletons of three young birds,that, judging from their size, were of birds not more than one or two days old.I wonder just what was the cause of this tragedy? Was it disease, a cat, abird of prey or an insidious Cowbird, that directly or indirectly was the cause?Who can say! Perhaps it was none of these, but some other great catastrophethat entered the lives of the parent birds.—^Kendrick A. Hatt, Lafayette,Indiana. (Compare this list and method of observation with the foregoing.—-A. H. W.)
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CHIPPING SPARROWOrder—Passer ES Family —Fringillid-c Species—PASSERINA Genus—Spizella THE CHIPPING SPARROW By T. GILBERT PEARSON tlT^e iRational Si00omtion ot audubon ^otittii^ EDUCATIONAL LBAFLET No. 80 In the United States are about forty kinds of useful, interesting birds calledSparrows. Besides the English Sparrow, which is not included in the foregoingstatement, the one known to more persons than any other is the little confidingChipping Sparrow. It is the bird that more than any other, perhaps, showsits absolute trust in mankind. It seems not to care for the deep forest, thewindy beaches, the vast marshes, or the impenetrable swamps where so manyof the feathered denizens of the land are wont to live. If you look for the Chipping Sparrow, particularly in spring, go to thegarden, for you can find it there, hopping along the rows of sprouting vegetables.It does not injure any of these tender plants—in fact you mayconsider yourself fortunate if one or more pairs make their

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