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Identifier: birdlore131911nati (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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oon,however. We noticed that, unhke the actions of the birds during the drivingblizzard, they were now much more timid and active in every way, and vocif-erous with their various songs and calls,—so that, as a companion remarked,it sounded like the chorus which greets one when opening the door of anaviary in a zoological garden. Moved with pity, we hung bones and suet about in the trees, but a laterreconnoiter of the lake in a canoe showed that this was unnecessary. Thewaters of the lake, warmed by the preceding month of spring, were producingmultitudes of a large, mosquito-like insect, which everywhere were burstingfrom their pupa cases and, benumbed by the cold air, were fluttering andstruggling with the strong waves on the surface of the water. Not only didthey produce provender for the large flock of various species of Swallowswhich dipped them from off the lakes surface, and for the Phoebes, whichmade sallies in Kingfisher fashion, but also for the feathered refugees which (76)
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TREE BARN AND BANK SWALLOWS (77) 78 Bird - Lore lined the banks on the grass and sand, which the waves licked clean of snow,and upon which they deposited tens of thousands of this God-given manna.That birds not so fortunate as to find the secret of the lakes perished miserablyis evident from the fact that I know of two Robins and a Chipping Sparrowwhich succumbed in this favorable locality; of a Blue Jay, two Robins, twoChipping Sparrows, a Cowbird and a Savannah Sparrow, which sought and

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