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Identifier: birdlore61904nati (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 Institution Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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way he would go. Feathers would often fly in these little conflicts, and I have seen partly crippled birds which had been hurt in this way. A one-legged bird came about for several days and had rather a hard time, for the others invariably bullied him and drove him away. I watched the various flocksclosely forother spe-cies of birdsespecial lyLongspurs, which as- ^ -.^^ i^^ ^^m^ Wt-Wt^-*^ ^ ^^ ^^^ oV sociatewith \jL a^.,t«SK£^^«lfi2)^«r other bird seer> * ^* ^v ^^ k^^^BH^^^^^VTZT^ikthem on ^k. T ldiV^^BSSHP*lL^ ^^^ ^ G r a y - the plains, ^LAy^l^M^^^f^i/ pV^Bfe crov^ned Leuco- sticte, which wasfeeding, on themorning of Feb-ruary 13, witha small flock ofLarks, just aftera new fall of snow. This wasthe second time I have seenthe species in town, the otheroccasion being earlier in thewinter, when I saw a singlebird on the street. Mr. C. E. Aiken tells me that in the winter of 1871, I think, there were large flocks about the town, which was 1 do not think they very often get so far
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HORNED LARK POSES founded only the summer beforeaway from the mountains. After the first of March the weather moderated, and the Larks, all ofwhich appeared to be Desert Horned Larks, began to disappear, going outon the plains again. The Christmas Bird Census BIRD-LORES Fourth Christmas Bird Census was even more suc-cessful than any of the three which have preceded it. This fact isbest expressed by a statement of the number of reports received eachyear since the Census was inaugurated. Thus, in 1900 twenty-five re-ports were sent in, in 1901, thirty-four, in 1902, fifty-three, and in 1903,seventy-eight. The area covered extends from Ontario, Vermont, New Hampshire,Michigan and Wisconsin, south to Florida and Texas, west to Californiaand Washington ; and the Census is interesting, not alone from the numberof reports made, but also because of the rather unusual character of theircontents. Pine Grosbeaks, which last year were not mentioned by a singleobserver, are now reported from New H

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