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Title: Bird-lore
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: National Association of Audubon Societies for the Protection of Wild Birds and Animals
Subjects: Birds -- Periodicals Birds -- Conservation Periodicals
Publisher: New York, National Association of Audubon Societies
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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\.ml!iwk^ CATBIRD ON NEST The poor mother, reduced to despair, did not care whether she lived ordied, and the prowling cat waited his chance and with one quick spring, hehad her in his claws. Now that this family had been killed there was butone thing that the mate thought of and that was revenge. What this poorbird did, he would not (have) dared (to) do if he had not been so enraged.The cat would be lounging lazily on the ground, when the bird would swoopdown from a near fence or tree, pluck(ing) a bill full of fur from the back ofhis enemy, and then fly quickly away. Try as he would, the cat could notcatch the Catbird. He would not let the cat get any rest, and so made thecats life miserable.—Ogden A. Kelley (age ii years), Chevy Chase, Md. A good observation, vivid and connected. The instincts of birds, should not beconfused with human emotions.—A. H. W.
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CAROLINA WREN (One-half natural size) Order—Passbres Family—Troglodytid.*: Genus—Thrvothorus Speries—Llduvicianls National Association of Audubon Societies Educational Leaflet, No. 50 THE CAROLINA WREN By WITMER STONE ^^e jl^ational Si^^omtion ot Audubon ^ocittitu EDUCATIONAL LEAFLET NO. 50 There are two birds which, dissimilar as they are in color and familyrelationships, are always closely associated in my mind because of their simi-larity in voice and habitat—the Cardinal and the Carolina Wren. Both arecharacteristic of that southern land which stretches along our lower Atlanticseaboard and comes pushing northward along the Susquehanna and Delawareriver valleys and up the Mississippi and its branches. In alder swamps and low, moist woodland we find them both throughoutthe year; for they seem to be practically resident wherever they occur.Time and again we are puzzled in early spring, when both are in full song,to distinguish between their varied melodies. In the low, flat

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