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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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rself. A little dried grass and a few featherswas all that kept bird and eggs from resting on bare ground. Contrary toexpectations, there was not a willow within one hundred feet. One or twognarled pirion trees stood, about fifty feet away. The nest was not roundbut elliptical in form, and the bird never went on the nest except the longway of the ellipse, sitting facing either the east or the west. The search was then renewed and continued till July 7, but on entirelydifferent ground, as the willows were avoided. The result was two oldnests of the preceding year, with the egg-shells still in the nest. One ofthese was on a very small bunch of grass more than half way to the top ofwhat is known as Mount Goliah, just east of Lower Chicago Lake, in arather deep wash for that mountain ; the grass spot was just out of the wayof the water. In this case no willows were nearer than two thousand feet.The other old nest was on the same slope of the mountain, about half amile farther north. (117)
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The Nesting Habits of the White-tailed Ptarmigan 119 In 1892, learning that a photograph of this bird on its nest was in de-mand, I spent another month in the search. Only old nests were found.One of these was under some rocks but on the grass. It was in one of theplaces where the sun melted the snow of^, while the rock kept it from fallingthere. The search was continued one month every year, but no nestscontaining eggs were found till 1901. At that time I was carrying a small camera and taking photographs ofall kinds of nests that came in my way while looking for Ptarmigan. I had

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