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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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s an accurate account of the life-his-tory of fifty-two native Indiana birds,and it has met with a warm reception notonly from bird lovers but from the publicgenerally. Mr. Woollen has been prominentlyconnected with the Indiana AudubonSociety, which he helped to organize. In his private life, Mr. Woollen is aman who has put into practice the theoryof plain living and high thinking. Heis very fond of children, and is never sobusy that he has not a cordial greetingfor the child who comes into his office orhis home. He is devoted to his familyand his friends, and finds much pleasurein his library, where he has accumulateda large amount of nature-study material,which he is arranging for the library ofWoollens Garden of Birds and Botany.One of his keenest pleasures is to walkthrough the wilds of Buzzards Roost,where the little folk of the wood havelearned to know him as their friend.—M.L. Bass. Bird Destruction In an address delivered by the Englishbird protectionist, Mr. James Buckland,
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A CONNECTICUT GAME WARDENS BAG 15 Robins, 3 Flickers, 3 Blue Jays, 2 Hermit Thrushes, i Purple Finch. Taken from Antonia Distopple, October 21, 1910, at Stratford, Conn. He forfeited a $40 bond. Photograph by Wilbur F. Smith (65) 66 Bird - Lore at the meeting of the Royal Colonial In-stitute, held at the Hotel Metropole, Lon-don, December 20, 1910, on the subjectThe Birds of our Colonies and their Pro-tection, he states some interesting factsregarding the destruction of birds formillinery ornaments. The Emu (Dromaius), in Australia, isconfined every year to a more restrictedrange. The birds have been pursued fortheir feathers until they have been exter-minated absolutely in Tasmania, Victoriaand South Australia. During the pastyear, only 1,019 skins were found in theLondon markets. The Lyre-bird (Menura) of Australia,he declares, is rapidly approaching extinc-tion. Evidence of this, as shown by themillinery trade of London, is that a fewyears ago as many as four hundred of thetails of

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