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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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SNOWY OWL Property of F. F. Brewster (281) 282 Bird-Lore In 1898 therefore he went with Abbott H. Thayer, under whom he wasstudying, Gerald Thayer and Charles R. Knight, to Florida. The followingyear, as a member of the Harriman Expedition to Bering Sea, he had excep-tional opportunities to meet in life many boreal birds which had been studiedby few, if any, bird artists. The reports of this expedition contain some of thestudies made on this trip. In 1901 he accompanied a party of the BiologicalSurvey into western Texas. In 1903 he studied in California and Nevada; in1904 in Jamaica; and in 1909 in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. In 1902, 1907, 1908-11 and 1913, Fuertes acted as artist to the AmericanMuseums expeditions, which during these years made field studies and gath-ered material for habitat groups in the Museum from the Bahamas, Florida,Saskatchewan and Alberta, Yucatan, Mexico and Colombia. On these expeditions he has collected about thirty-five hundred specimens,which are beautifu

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