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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 Institution Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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(at minimum estimate).—Mr. and Mrs E. L. Bickkord. Cheney, Wash.—Time, 9.45 a. m. to 1.30 p. m. Foggy, ground bare ; wind, east,.light; temp., 26°. Batchelder Woodpecker, i; Black-billed Magpie, 3; San DiegoRed-wing, 34 ; Brewer Blackbird, 11; Redpoll, 29 ; Merrill Song Sparrow, 1; Slender-billed Nuthatch, 2; Oregon Chickadee, 21 ; Mountain Chickadee, i. Total, 9 species,^102 individuals.—RosvvEi.i, H. Johnson. The Pine Grosbeak at Washington, D. C. Since the matter on the preceding pages was put in type, we havereceived a number of interesting censuses which we should have been gladto print had they arrived in time for insertion in their proper places. Wemust make room, however, for a record of the Pine Grosbeak at Wash-ington, D. C. (the most southern point from which the species has beenrecorded this season), by Mr. Thomas H. Levering, who writes that hesatisfactorily identified three individuals of this species, a short distanceoutside the city limits, on November 26, 1903-
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Copyright, by I,. S HortonLONG-EARED OWL ON NEST WITH YOUNGPhotographed by L. S. Horton, at Hyde Hark, N. Y., May 17, iqoj The nest was in a maple tree about twenty-five feet from the groimd. The picturewas secured by fastening the camera in an ash, about six feet away, attaching sixty feet oftubing, and on the return of the parent Owl, making a 20-second exposure. While thecamera was being removed the Owls vigorously attacked the intruder, coming to withinthree feet of his head, or, alighting on a near-by limb, with rufHed feathers and droopingwings, uttering a loud, cat-like mewing. (18) JTor Ceacl)er0 anti ^tutient0 Bird-Lores Advisory Council WITH some slight alterations and additions, we reprint below thenames and addresses of the ornithologists forming Bird-LoresAdvisory Council, which were first published in BiRD-LoREfor February, 1900. To those of our readers who are not familiar with the objects of theCouncil, we may state that it was formed for the purpose of placingstudents

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