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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 Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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00 there hved close by, on the clififs overlooking GraysFerry, Dr. Benjamin Say, whose little son Thomas, then a boy of thirteen,and later a naturalist of note, carried to Bartram all the curious specimensthat he chanced to find on his rambles. Dr. B. S. Barton, the young pro-fessor of botany at the University of Pennsylvania, also came to him forassistance; while up at Milestown, a short distance north of the city, liveda young Scotch schoolmaster, Alexander Wilson by name, who was thenabout to take the school at Grays Ferry, and to make the acquaintance ofBartram, under whose guidance he was soon to become one of the mostfamous ornithologists that our country has ever produced. In the development of all these men, and in others as well, much is tobe attributed to the influence of William Bartram; and, when we form ourjudgment of his worth, we must look, as in the case of other modest men,beyond the work which he accomplished himself and consider also thatwhich he inspired in others.
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SPOTTED SANDPIPER ON NESTPhotographed from nature by R. H. Beebe, Arcade, N. Y. The American Bittern at Home By E. G. TABOR. Meridian. N. Y. With photographs from nature by the author THE American Bittern is a summer resident throughout central NewYork, and wherever there are favorable marshes to furnish feedingand breeding grounds, plum pudn notes are common sounds asthe sun smlcs in the west and twilight begins to gather At this time it hasalways been the delight of the writer to be at one of the numerous marshesthat border our lakes and creeks in this locality and listen to the boomingof the Bittern, the clatter of the Rails, and the chatter of Blackbirds,Marsh Wrens and other small birds as they go to their accustomed rooststo pass the night. Nighthawks come forth from their hiding-places anddart down through space in their plunges; Wilsons Snipes mount into theair and soar and drum until lost from sight in the darkness and nothing butthe whir of their wings isheard as they pass a

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