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Title: American ornithology, for home and school
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Reed, Chester A. (Chester Albert), 1876-1912
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: (Worcester, Mass. : Charles K. Reed)
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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be found advertised on another page. We have putour best efforts into this book to make it complete, reliable and com-prehensive, and the results have exceeded our expectations. It is justthe book that any bird-lover would like to receive for a Christmas giftand it costs only fifty cents. Commencing with this issue, we will publish supplements of birds tobe colored. These should be of great interest to both teachers andschool children and we hope they will be the means of making manynew friends for the birds. RESULTS OF 1905 PHOTO CONTEST. Class 1. 1st. Blue Jay brooding young, Wilbur Smith, So. Nor-walk, Conn.2nd. Ruffed Grouse on nest, J. H. Miller, Lowville, N. Y.3rd. Loggerhead Shrike, I. E. Hess, Philo, 111.Class 2. 1st. Young Kingbirds, R. H. Beebe, Arcade, N. Y. 2nd. Young Screech Owls, F. R. Miller, Toledo, Ohio.3rd. Young Waxwings, N. F. Stone, Shrewsbury, Mass.Class 3. 1st. Shrike Nest, J. M. Schreck, Buffalo, N. Y., 2nd. Sandpiper nest and eggs, H. G. Phister, Vernon,N. Y.
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YOUNG KINGBIRDS) Winner of f rst prize in Class 2.) By R. H. Beebe. 256 AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGY. NATURAL HISTORY CAMP, Wigwam Hill, Lake Quinsigamond, Worcester, )\Iass. Snugly tucked away on the west shore of beautiful Lake Quinsig-amond, this summer, was a novel camp for teachers and students ofnature, conducted by the Worcester Natural History Society. Foryears, the society has owned a beautiful tract of about forty acres ofland for all living wild creatures, and it is on this or adjoining land thatthe editor has done most of his study and photography of our commonbirds. The camp is located beside a wide boulevard that encircles the lake,but is three quarters of a mile distant from the main highway, near enoughto be easily accessible to those interested and sufficiently remote toprevent its being over run by the large crowds that frequent the twopopular parks that also front on the lake. Those who did not wish tomake the trip a-foot could go in the launch that made hourly runs fromthe

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