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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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ns Nest that shows enrolled thenames of distinguished men and women of world-wide interest. Fifty-threestates and governments are represented, but the tourist does notlinger over theguest-book to see the distinguished names it bears. He wishes to see the birds,the rabbits, the trees, the flowers, and the vines, where Brer Possum wascaught napping. It is the earnest desire of all Atlantians that some day there may be a childshospital at The Wrens Nest, that will be the greatest memorial that can beerected to the memory of Joel Chandler Harris. THE BALTIMORE ORIOLE Is it a firebrand, tossed in the air, Which the soft breeze fans to a flame?Glowing and brilliant beyond compare.As it darts and flashes, now here, now, there. Pray, can you give it a name? Or is it a petal from some gorgeous flower. Wind-blown from the tropics this way?Or a meteor shooting through orchard and bower.Till the blossoms come falling, a glorious shower, Like the ghost of a snowstorm in May? —Nellie J. Wharples.
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The Nighthawk in ConnecticutI By LEWIS F. HALL, Bridgeport, Conn. I HAVE read of Nighthawks laying their eggs on the gravel roofs of build-ings in the heart of cities, but never before this summer has it been my good fortune to see them nesting, or to obtain a good photograph of thefemale on the eggs. On June 14, 1913,1 learned that a Nighthawk had laid two eggs on the tar-and-gravel roof of the Southern New England Telephone Gos, building at 184Fairfield Ave., Bridgeport, Conn. This is a three-story building in the heartof the business section. Being anxious to photograph the bird, I at once paida visit to the Telephone Office and obtained permission to go up on the roof.This I did by means of the fire-escape, and there, beside two bricks which werelying on the roof, sat the female Nighthawk, her color matching perfectlythat of the tar and gravel. After flushing the bird and finding only one egg, I learned that the otherhad been broken by the bird in removing it with her wing from un

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