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Identifier: birdlore161914nati (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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ds. The words were scarcely spoken before achorus of loud, strident notes announced them. Three males and eight femalesalighted in the trees over the camera. They discussed matters for a whilelike a steepleful of Sparrows, before deciding that it was time for breakfast.Two females flew down and arranged themselves before the camera; two more,and then the remaining females. More wary or less greedy, the males delayed;but I determined to wait, before pulling the thread, until at least one of themshould get in front of the lens. Still they hesitated, and (when they finallydid drop to the ground, they were not in the plane of focus; only provokingly On the Trail of the Evening Grosbeak 431 near. Very slowly they edged toward the females. The thread tightened—it is a tense moment just before you snap the picture, like the suspense whenthe fish is nibbling and you are waiting for just the right response before jerk-ing the line. In a moment I would have the coveted picture. The thread was
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EVENING GROSBEAKS IN SUMACH 432 Bird - Lore almost taut when, with excited chirping, all of the Grosbeaks flew into thetrees, and a huge black cat bounded from behind a bush. Words fail me now,as then, to express my feelings. Imagine then, if you can, my state of mindthe following morning, when exactly the same performance was repeated,except that this time it was a yellow cat. Black cats, yellow cats, and Mal-

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