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Identifier: birdlore18nati (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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which had been aboutthe maple trees in his yard all day. It wasa beautiful male Evening Grosbeak. Itwas quite tame; and early in the day hadbeen seen drinking from a pipe under thekitchen window. The following day, thebird was gone.—Stewart H. Burnham,Hudson Falls, A^. Y. Chased by a Great Horned Owl Toward twilight of a September dayin 1914, I was sitting in a canoe up theInlet above Second Connecticut Lake,N. H., watching for an Owl which, Ibelieved, used as a hunting-stand one ormore of the many dead trees. Suddenlya Belted Kingfisher shot upstream, flyinglow over the water and yelling bloodymurder, a Great Horned Owl a few yardsbehind. They appeared from around abend below me and disappeared arounda bend just above, the Owl still in closechase, but the Kingfisher presentlyswung back over the trees alone andpassed on downstream. That the Owl, itsfirst swoop failing, continued so far inpursuit instead of giving up at once,seems to me of interest.—Charles H.Rogers, New York City.
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BANK SWALLOWSPhotographed by A. A. Allen, Ithaca, N. Y. (322) 2^oofe ji^ehjg anti ^tUttosi Land Birds of Northern New York. APocket Guide to Common Land Birdsof the St. Lawrence Valley and theLowlands in General of Northern NewYork. By Edmund J. S.\wyer. Illus-trated by the Author. Published underthe auspices of the Watertown BirdClub, 1916. 90 pages. Paper 35 cents;cloth, 50 cents; both postpaid. For saleby local bookstores, and by A. C.Rogers, 325 Jay St., Watertown, N. Y. The resident of northern New Yorkwho is a beginner in bird-study shouldfind this a handy little (3^^ x 6^ inches)companion in the field, to tell him thenames of about 130 of the commonerland birds of his region. The arrange-ment is in groups, such as BrightlyColored Birds, Tree Climbers and Creep-ers, etc., in which, it is believed, a begin-ner can find his birds more readily thanif grouped in families of which he knowsnext to nothing. It would have been stillbetter, perhaps, to base the entire arrange-ment on one

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