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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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towards me and settled upon my shoulder.Again and again this was repeated. He would not leave me. I saw thatI must treat him as one sometimes treats a clinging child : I muststeal away stealthily so that he would not find me. So I took himaway from the house, up the road to a hammock where the treesgrew thickly and where there were many birds, and some Parulas likehimself. 1 placed him upon a branch among the leaves, his head turnedaway from me, then tried to steal quickly away unseen. In an instanthe was on my shoulder. Three times I tried this, with the same result.But the fourth time it was successful. As he reached out toward a fly- A Sudden Friendship 97 ing insect in the air I disappeared behind a clump of trees and, stealingin and out quickly and quietly among the vines and shrubs, eluded him.I am not ashamed to say that my eyes were full of tears as 1 creptalong and there was a homesick lump in my throat. I wonder if hemissed me. I wonder if he understood that I had to do it.
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IN ARCADIAPhotographed from nature by William Rollins Birds and Seasons FOURTH SERIES JUNE AND JULY BIRD-LIFE NEAR BOSTONBy Ralph Hoffmann EVEN before the May migrants return, the early arrivals and someof the winter residents have chosen nesting-sites in the old appleorchards, and all through May and early June a student of birdsis kept busy follow^ing up old friends or making nevu acquaintances. Birdsreturn to their old homes with startling regularity, and yet there is aconsiderable amount of change from year to year in the avine populationof a township. One species has had a successful year, and overflows froman old locality, so that a pair of House Wrens appear where there werenone the year before, or some calamity overtakes the Prairie Warblers,and the old corner where the male sang is silent. While many birds aregenerally distributed, others are very rare, or abundant only in a few pe-culiar regions. Only in extensive marshes can we expect to find- theRails and the Marsh Wrens;

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