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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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from Fentress have been cross-ing Clear Fork of Cumberland into thiscounty at night, and kiUing many of thebirds on their roosts along White OakCreek, almost within the very precinctsof this town, but no arrests had been madeuntil last night when nine of the raiderswere caught with the goods on them.They had more than sixty birds in theirsacks, so that the fines will amount to over$300, the penalty being $5 for each bird.The guilty parties, being well known, wereallowed to return home on their own re-cognizance, but the fines will undoubt-edly be enforced, as both the state andfederal authorities are determined to put astop to these cruel and lawless proceed-ings. The prosecution of the cases will besupervised by the officials of the AudubonSociety, who have these matters in charge. Upon learning these facts, the Asso-ciation immediately telegraphed its localrepresentatives to take up the matter, andit is sincerely to be hoped that the peopleof that region will be taught such a lesson
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A FISH HAWKS FAMILYFrom an etching by Will Simmons (215) 2l6 Bird-Lore by Ihc coiiils lluiL they will let the Robinsalone hereafter, lest something worse hap-pen to them. Bird-Study in Michigan Most of the universities and larger col-leges maintain summer schools at whichbiology is taught in a more or less practicalway, and these often afford excellent localopportunities to bird-students. One of themost notable of these vacation courses isthat to be had at the Biological Station of

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