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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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ep,throaty, bass roar, with some-thing of the quality of grunt-ing pigs, or the barkingbellow of a bull alligator, oran Ostrich. Accompanyingthis major sound was a weird,crooning sort of wail, prob-ably the contribution of thefemale or young, or both.The noise was fully as loudas the full-throated roaring of lions, and that it has marvelous carrying powerwas frequently attested when we heard it from the far side of some of the greatAndean valleys as we wound our tortuous way across the Central Cordillera.This is of course in no sense a bird-voice, yet it is by far the most strikingsound in the American tropics, and I should feel that I had done the subjectslight justice if I did not at least try to make it recognizable to those who mayread these papers, and some day hear for themselves this astonishing sound. In bringing to a close this series of impressions, it must not be thoughtthat they cover the field of tropical bird music. They form, indeed, themerest nucleus on which to build.
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RED HOWLER On the Trail of the Evening Grosbeak By ARTHUR A. ALLEN, Ithaca, N. Y.With photographs by the Author THIS is not a tale of the treacherous muskeg and the long traverse.No perilous adventures or rare discoveries in the nesting haunts ofthis fascinating bird will be recounted. We will hot even penetrate intoits breeding range. Instead, follow me along the highways of Ithaca, throughits parks and cemeteries and into its thickets. Track with me these birds fromfeeding-ground to feeding-ground, learn their food, decoy them to feeding-sta-tions, bring them to our own back door, and transform them from fleetingguests to daily companions. The story begins February 17, 1914; at least for our purposes it does,though, personally, I believe it began many, many Grosbeak generations ago,when the first of the species wandered from the beaten paths of their migra-tion in the west and started the habit of coming east. For they are creaturesof habit, these Evening Grosbeaks, stolid, indiffer

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