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Title: Bird lore
Identifier: birdlore231921nati (find matches)
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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Book News and Reviews 43 Law, with the care of our seventy bird reservations, and with so many other responsibilities that it is difficult to under- stand why similar Bureaus have not been established in countries having economic problems essentially like our own.—F. M.C. Cassinia: a Bird Annual. Proceedings of the Delaware Valley Ornithological Club, No. XXIII, 1919, pp. i-ss; 2 half-tones, ills., i chart. During the year 1919, the D. V. O. C. held sixteen meetings with an average attendance of twenty-five members, or joint meeting of these two clubs. Doubtless other common interests of both societies might be served by such reunions which could be held annually, and alternate between the two cities. Held in May, these meetings might lead to cooperation in the study of bird migration. In this issue of 'Cassinia,' Wm. L. Baily presents a review of the ornitho- logical achievements of the uncle after whom he was named, which makes it clear from whom the reviewer inherited his love of birds, and Samuel Scoville, Jr., con-
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PILEATED WOODPECKER Photographed by A. D. McGrew and reproduced by the courtesy of the Delaware Valley Ornithological Club about 20 per cent of its resident member- ship. Just why the Philadelphia organiza- tion should have over 120 resident members on its roll, while the New York Society musters but seventy-odd, is a problem in ornithological sociology which might well form a subject of debate at a tributes a lively account of a hunt in May, 1919, in Centre County, Pennsylvania, for nests of the Pileated Woodpecker. Several were found and the photograph of one of these fine birds at the entrance to its home, which is here reproduced, was secured by A. D. McGrew.

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