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Identifier: birdlore19nati (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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inthis picture, it would be well to have thestation partly enclosed at the back toprotect the birds and yet have an exit.Cords or wires from the corners wouldprevent its blowing over. The pictureshows a Cardinal on the ground, twoChickadees on the perches and Juncos. Sustained Effort The importance of Ke=ping at itin the education of the publCc on the sub-ject of bird-protection is Zu great as inany other effort at public improvement.It is a pleasure to learn, therefore, thatthe Civic Club of Chambersburg, Penn-sylvania, is to organize during the comingseason another fine exhibition of bird-study, feeding-devices, etc., like thatwhich was so successful last year. Value of the Index A lady in Minneapolis writes us thispleasant note after examining the newIndex to the first fifteen volumes ofBird-Lore: I am finding out what a storehouse oftreasures Bird-Lore really is; and tho Ihave only the last volume myself, I findthat our Library has all of them, and Iwant this key to the treasures.
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LEAST BITTERNPhotographed by Verdi Burtch, Branchport, N. Y., May 7, 1916 2^irb=lLore A BI-MONTHLY MAGAZINE DEVOTED TO THE STUDY AND PROTECTION OF BIRDS Official Organ of The Audubon Societies Vol. XIX May—June, 1917 No. 3 Our Neighbors of the Grape-Vine By THEODORE MACKLIN, Manhattan, Kans.With photographs by the Author i s IGNS of spring had indeed come. One ofthe neighbors httle folks had surely seena Robin perched far up on the cotton-wood tree across the way and in the joy-ful mirth of childhood had hastened to itsmother with the first news of the season. Afew days later when a weather relapse broughta severe sample of the wintry days almost agone,five badly chilled Robins were seen grouped onthe bare twigs of a scarred plum tree. The nextmorning a carpet of white greeted any of theredbreasts which had not hastily flown south.One afternoon a few weeks later a visitorwas seen hopping about on the grape-vine thatin summer shaded the back porch. During thedays that followed it was

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