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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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PART OF A LARGE COLLECTION OF BIRD-BOXES AND MOUNTED BIRDS SHOWN AT THE ELGIN (ILL.) AUDUBON SOCIETY EXHIBIT Photographed by Henry Groneman
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BUTTERFLY COLLECTION, ELGIN (ILL.) AUDUBON SOCIETY EXHIBITPhotographed by Henry Groneman (32s) 326 Bird - Lore houses, paintings, and short essays onbirds—all work done by the school chil-dren. The exhibit was not confined to birds,but included a beautiful collection of sea-shells collected from all over the world,loaned by Fields Museum, Chicago, sev-eral collections of well-mounted and classi-fied moths, butterflies, insects, shells, fish,fossils, minerals, fungi, and plants. Acollection of hornets nests, varying fromthe size of a peach to that of a half-bushelbasket, were arranged on a tree, togetherwith several nests. There were photo-graphs of birds taken by some of themembers, and a group from the LaysanIslands taken by Homer Dill, curator ofIowa State University. There were threecollections of eggs, one of which bore asign saying they were collected over twentyyears ago, before the value of bird-protec-tion was realized, and that it was now against the law to rob the nest of

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