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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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given to the Governor in modifyingthe game list, shortening or closing theopen seasons, and prohibiting the sale ofgame, which adapt the law to local condi-tions and obviate the necessity for radicalamendments. It is interesting to note thatNew Zealand prohibited the introduction ofinjurious species twenty years earlier thanthe United States, and required permitsfrom the Department of Agriculture for allforeign animals and birds five years beforeCongress adopted similar provisions in theLacey Act. Finally, in marked contrastwith our practice, she has found it advan-tageous, in spite of her varied climatic con-ditions, to have a uniform open season ofmoderate length for all game instead of sea-sons of varying length extending over eightor nine months for different birds. Springshooting is thus done away with and moreeffectual protection given to migratory shore-birds and waterfowl than is possible underour present laws. NATIONAL COMMITTEE OFAUDUBON SOCIETIES EDUCATIONAL LEAFLET NO. 7 4
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THE SNOWY HERON Order—HerodionesGenus—Egretta Fam ily—Ardeidee Species—Egretta candidissima (37) The Snowy Heron By WILLIAM DUTCHER Chairman National Committee of Audubon Societies Description—Snowy Heron (Egretta candidissima). There is no difference in the plumage of the sexes, both ofwhich are always pure white. Occipital (top of head),and jugular (lower throat) region with plumes. From theinterscapular region (between the shoulders) grow a large number of aigrette plumes which extend to or beyondthe tail and, when in perfect condition, are recurved at tip; lores (front of eye), eyes and feet yellow. Bill black,except at base, which is yellow; legs black, exceptlower portion behind, which is yellow. The adults after thebreeding season and the immature birds do not have the aigrette plumes. Length from tip of bill to end of tailnot including plumes, varies from twenty to twenty-seven inches. The Snowy Heron always breeds in colonies. Nest, a closely built platform of stick

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