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Identifier: birdlore11899nati (find matches)
Title: Bird lore
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: National Committee of the Audubon Societies of America National Association of Audubon Societies for the Protection of Wild Birds and Animals National Audubon Society
Subjects: Birds Birds Ornithology
Publisher: New York City : Macmillan Co.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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disguised with dye. Or if the fearfully manufactured confectionsare the heads of real Owls and Parrotstwisted out of all semblance to nature,or merely compounds of Chicken feath-ers and celluloid. Both of these atti-tudes are equally useful to the causeif they are maintained consistently, butinevitably the way of the total abstain-ers is the easier of the two. The totalabstainers need not, to quote Hamlet,know a hawk from a handsaw. While,in order to be consistent, the moderatesmust be bird students of no mean in-telligence if they would keep safely onthe exceedingly narrow pathway that di-vides the feathers that may be, fromthose that ??iiist not be worn, not aloneby Audubonites, but by any woman whohas either sense or sensibility. A path-way ? A slack wire is the better simile,so treacherous is the footing. What is it that causes the downfallof many of the moderates, who knowthe common birds fairly well, and couldnot be hoodwinked into buying Egretsplumes or dyed swallow wings ? 70)
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QUILLS TO AVOID 1. Inner wing quill of Bald Eagle; length, 10-13 inches ; brownish black, more or less while at the base 2. Outer wing <iuill of Bald Eagle: length, 15-24 inches; black, often whitish or brownish at the base, the broader web of the five outer quills notched, this notch being absent from the remaining quills. 3. Outer wing quill of Brown Pelican; length, 15-17 inches; black, the quill, or midrib, white for about two-thirtls its length. 4. Inner wing quill of Brown Pelican; length, about 10 inches; blackish brown, the outer margins. particularly of the narrower web, frosted with silver-gray. 172 ^ird-Lore You can guess easily, for you haveseen the tempter protruding above andbehind the up-to-date outing hat the en-tire season, and unless you are unusu-ally lucky it has poked you reproach-fully in the eye, as if calling your atten-tion to its plight. The Quill of course! Yes, the Quill is the mischief-maker. Atits introduction many years ago, theQuill was at first the

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