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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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from the splendid collection of fossils just how closely the great Dinosaurswere related to the earliest birds. Of especial interest was a fossil of an extinctbird which shows two rows of well-developed teeth. Dr. G. Clyde Fisher, ofthe American Museum of Natural History, has also lectured to us delightfully.Besides paying especial attention to the utilitarian value of birds as a warmeasure, the Club is helping the Committee for Devastated France in their Reports of State Societies and Bird Clubs 489 work of replanting the fruit trees of France, 60,000 or more having been ruth-lessly cut down by the retreating enemy.—(Miss) Henrietta 0. Jones,Corresponding Secretary. Cocoanut Grove (Fla.) Audubon Society.—This year three active depart-ments have been added: Legislative, Educational, and Study. The first isbusy with important reforms; the second is doing fine work in Sunday andpublic schools; while the chairman of the third has created an unusual interestin the study of home-birds.
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BTRD-FOUNTAIX i,BY EPISCOPAL CHLRLII RLCTURY) ERECTED BY THE COCOANUTGROVE (FLORIDA) AUDUBON SOCIETY We have secured a county game-warden and have presented two bird-fountains, one to the Episcopal Church and one to the Christian ScienceTemple. Both have been appreciated by the birds and are very attractive.Our bird poster at a poster exhibit (of Help Win the War) held by the DadeCounty Federation of Womens Clubs was the center of attraction. It showedsome of the birds that eat the boll-weevil. We have interested two of the countyfarming organizations to the extent of gaining their promise of protectors forcounty birds. Our membership continues to increase; it now numbers 120. Weown a Liberty Bond.—Mrs. Kirk Munroe, Secretary. 490 Bird - Lx)re Columbus (Ohio) Audubon Society.—Interest in birds, more as a relaxa-tion than the doing of any special work, characterized the Society the past year,owing to the stress of the times. Interesting lectures, to only two of which anadmission fe

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