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Identifier: birdlore71905nati (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 Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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f these birds should ever be killed. The wise and progres-sive farmer will, when the deep snows of the coming winter cover theground, encourage his little Sparrow friends to remain on his acres byscattering for them in protected places the chafi and sweepings from hisbarn. The birds will repay his kindness a hundred fold by destroying theseeds of thousands of noxious vi^eeds and to that extent lighten his laborsdurng the following season. Study Points for Teachers and Scholars Can you identify the Tree Sparrow, and distinguish it from the other Sparrows found inyour locality? Trace on map of North America where this Sparrow is found in summer.Where in winter. When do.you first see them in the fail ? When do they leave in thespring ? What seeds have you seen them feed upon ? How large flocks have you seen ?What other birds have you seen them associate with ? Have you ever heard them sing ?Describe the song. Read Snow Bound. NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OFAUDUBON SOCIETIES SPECIAL LEAFLET NO. 2
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THE PURPLE MARTIN Order — Passeres Famih Hirundinida Genus — Progne Species — Subis Issued as a Supplement to Bird-Lore, Vol. VII, No. 5, October, 1905 The Purple Martin By WILLIAM DUTCHER President National Association of Audubon Societies THE Purple Martin and its Pacific coast relative, Progne subis hesperia,are too well known to need a detailed description. The adult maleis a lustrous blue-black, the wings and tail being slightly duller.The adult female and the young of both sexes are grayish brown, glossedwith steel-blue on upper parts, while beneath they are dark gray, shadinginto whitish on the belly. The size of the Martin is about seven and one-half inches in length, but the great spread of wings, from fifteen to sixteeninches, makes the bird look very much larger than it really is. During summer the Martin is a bird of very wide distribution in tem-perate North America ; in autumn it migrates to the tropics, where itspends the winter. There are eight species of this ge

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