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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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The mother bird tried every inducement and allurement to coax heryoung from the perch upon which I had placed them, and frequently one orthe other of them would attempt to fly to her, and had to be replaced. I never before heard the female Grosbeak sing. This mother bird, how-ever, among other endearing calls, actually sang short, warbling snatchesthat were very sweet. At times she came with a worm in her bill and sat ona bush near by to coax the young away. She would come nearer and nearer,and almost but not quite place the morsel in the open mouth of a young one.Then, as the hungry little bird reached for it, she would draw back quickly,with generally the result that it would topple off the twig. Then themother ran before it and tried to hide it in the tall grass. I succeeded in getting one very good photograph of the mother bird thustrying to entice her young away. After that I rewarded her maternal anxietyby letting her call her children away one by one into the sheltering bushes.
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CHESTNUT-SIDED WARBLER AND NESTPhotographed from nature by Albert Morgan, Wetherfield, Conn. The Habits of the Black Vulture in Nicaragua By A. A. SAUNDERS THE summer and fall of 1905 I spent on a rubber plantation in theMosquito Coast district of Nicaragua, and had many opportunities toobserve nature in general, and birds in particular. One of thecommonest birds there is the Black Vulture. The native population, whospeak more English than Spanish, call this bird John Crow. A largenumber of these birds lived on the plantation, and 1 had many excellentopportunities to observe them. How so many of them managed to pick upa living there was a matter of wonder to me. We had cattle on the plan-tation, and occasionally one was butchered. On such days the Vulturesgorged themselves on the remains, but between times they must have grownpretty hungry. The lives of these birds, day by day, was a regular routine, influencedonly by butchering and by the character of the weather. In the earlymorning

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