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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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pproaching the nestover a horse that was being shod, and often keeping her place upon it whenthe smith worked at the vise for welding tires, which the picture shows, un-daunted by the ringing blows or showeys of sparks. The nest was completed and two eggs were laid, when I first visited theshop, July 7. Mrs. Wren kept her place during the shoeing of my horse,but flew off on my too close approach. On July 26, when I was again at the shop, the smith reported five eggsand the little mother sitting close; but, as we peered in at her, she showedsigns of nervousness, and finally flew off, revealing five newly hatched fledg-lings. Father Wren now became brave enough to enter with food when onlythe smith was about, and all five nestlings grew and throve. But, when theyleft the nest, one was unable to steer its course for the beautiful outside worldand struck the door, crushing its head. (The photograph was taken by Prof. C. P. McCormick, of the Bentleyville HighSchool, Washington County, Pa.)
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Photographed by Prof. C. P. McCormick and published by courtesy ofAbraham Baxter, blacksmith (43) The Migration of North American Sparrows TENTH PAPER Compiled by Professor W. W. Cooke, Chiefly from Data in the Biological Survey With Drawings by Louis Agassiz Fdertks(See frontispiece) IPSWICH SPARROW Sable Island is the only breeding-place known; from here the speciesmigrates along the Atlantic coast as far as Georgia, where it was taken nearDarien, January 8 and 15, 1890. About one-fifth of all the individuals remain on Sable Island throughoutthe winter; the remainder leave the Island in October and return in March;they have been taken in January all along the coast from Maine to Georgia,but comparatively few winter north of Massachusetts. Some dates of arrivalare: Seguin Island, Me., October 11, 1900; eastern Massachusetts, averageOctober 29, earliest October 22, 1889; Shinnecock Bay, N. Y., October 12,1884; Mount Pleasant, S. C., November 6, 1906. The earliest spring date inMaine i

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