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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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es with the present issue will find a properly datedrenewal blank in their magazine. In tlie event of a desire not to renew, the publishers wouldgreatly appreciate a postal to that effect. HfBlo subscribers whose subscription expired with the issue for December, 1903, and who haveas yet neither renewed their subscription nor. in res;)onse to onr request, sent us a notice to discon-tinue their magazine, the present nmnber is sent in the belief that the matter of renewal has beenoverlooked. We trust it will now receive prompt attention. Complete sets of Volumes I, II, III IV and V of Bird-Lore can still be supplied. Every number of Bird-Lore is as readable and valuable today as when it was issued,and no bird-lover who is not already supplied can find a better investment than back vol-umes of this magazine. Vols. I, III, IV and V are offered at the subscription price of $1 each,postpaid; the price of Vol. II is $3. Entered as second-class mail matter in the Post Office at Harrisburg, Pa.
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I. Hooded Warbler, Male. 3. Hooded Warbler, Young Female. 2. Hooded Warbler, Adult Female.4. Yellow-breasted Chat, Adult. A BI-MONTHLY MAGAZINEDEVOTED TO THE STUDY AND PROTECTION OF BIRDS Official Oroan of the Audubon Socicties Vol. VI January—February, 1904 No. 1 The Black Tern at Home By ERNEST THOMPSON SETON and FRANK M. CHAPMAN With photographs from nature C^^RAIK — crailc — craik! screamed the old Black Tern, in anxious^ quavering note, as we crossed the low prairie to the particularpond that she had consecrated by making her home on itsweedy waters. The nest had been discovered on June i6, 1901, not far from ourcamp, near Shoal Lake, Manitoba. A small knob of mud and water-soaked vegetation was selected as a foundation on which to place thenest of coarse reeds. At this time it contained one egg. On June 18a second egg was laid and, without waiting for the usual complement ofthree, incubation was begun. At no time during this remarkable period of a birds year did theTerns f

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