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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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strict ok Columbia and California Societies illustrated). FOR YOUNG OBSERVERS 215 EDUCATIONAL LEAFLET NO. 12. The Short-eared Owl. Illustrated by L^ouis Agassiz Fuertes William Dulcher . 217 if*if Manuscripts intended for publication, hooks, etc., for review, and exchanges should besent to the Editor, at Englewood, New Jersey. SPECIAL REQUEST TO SUBSCRIBERS H Your subscription to Bird-Lore expires with this issue, >ou will (iiid a jiiiik renewal blankplaced in your copy of the magazine. We hope you will endorse our efforts to make the next Yolunie of Bird-I.ore belter than any oftlie six which have preceded it by renewing now. On receipt of your renewal we will seiifl vou the Selon Shrike picluie which should he considereddue nolificalion of the entry of your subset ipt ion. If you can no longer cooperate with us in this practical manner, we reluctantly ask tlie favor ofa iKilice to discontinue your magazine. Entered as second-class mail matter in the Post Office at Harrisburu. Pa.
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1. Hermit Warbler, Male. 3. Hermit Warbler, Young. 2. Hermit Warbler, Female. 4. Townsends Warbler, Male. 5. Townsends Warbler, Female. ONE-HALF natural SIZE. A BI-MONTHLY MAGAZINEDEVOTED TO THE STUDY AND PROTECTION OF BIRDS Official Organ of the Auouson Socicties Vol. VI November—December, 1904 No. 6 How to Study a Bird By ERNEST THOMPSON SETON A DEFINITE plan is so helpful, that long ago 1 devised a formalscheme of bird study. This was published in 1887, and again, in1899. in The Osprey, but it has been so much modified since that1 venture to bring it again to the notice of bird students. I have alwaysfelt that the real history of a bird is its life history. The deepest inter-est attaches to everything that reveals the little mind, however feebly it maybe developed, which lies behind the feathers. So says the celebrated Eng-lish ornithologist, Seebohm, and I am very sure that there is no lack ofbird-lovers to re-echo the sentiment. The first two questions about a newbird—What do

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