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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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THE LARGE SNOWY OWL, OOK-PICK, ON HIS FAVORITE PERCH 2?irti=1Lore A BI-MONTHLY MAGAZINE DEVOTED TO THE STUDY AND PROTECTION OF BIRDS Official Organ of The Audubon Societies Vol. XIX July—August, 1917 No. 4 Children of the Midnight Sun By JOSEPH DIXON, Berkeley, Cal. With photographs by the author 4M0NG the many species of birds that migrate through the United/\ States, there are perhaps fewer species of shore-birds (Limicolce) thatremain to breed within its borders than there are of any other group ofmigrating birds. Many of these waders are not content to spend their summerseven in the northern Canadian provinces, but push on until they reach the veryshores of the Polar Sea, where they rear their young during the two months ofcontinuous daylight. Herbert K. Job, in Wild Wings, has called attention to the notable factthat, in spite of all the hunting of the day, there were comparatively very fewshore-bird pictures. However, photographs of the domestic life of certainspecies are not

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