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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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has been able to cooperate with directorsof summer schools in providing courses in bird-study. As heretofore, thesecourses were made possible through the generous contribution to the Associa-tion of one of our ))atrons. Miss Heloise Meyer. During the month of July, Dr. G. Clyde Fisher, of the American Museum ofNatural History, New York City, conducted a course in bird-study al theSummer School of the University of Florida, located in Gainesville. Dr. I-isher re;)()rtN: The work consisted of three ))arts as follows: Threerecitations a wi-ek in which Iearsons Bird Study liook was used as a text;four field-trips each week, devoted to the idenlilication of birds by sight and 400 Bird - Lore by calls and songs and to the study of the habits of birds; and five popularillustrated evening lectures. Forty-one students were enrolled in the class, andtwenty-six of these completed the work and earned credit. Between sixty andseventy species of Ijirds were identified in the field during the month.
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DR. G. CLYDE FISHER (FRONT ROW, LEFT END) AND BIRD CLASS HE CONDUCTEDFOR THE ASSOCIATION AT THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA IN THE SUMMER OF 1919 Miss Bess R. Green gave a course in popular ornithology at the Universityof Colorado, located at Boulder. This extended over a period of five weeks.The class met twice a week for lectures and eight field-trips were taken. Thesewere of two hours duration and extended from 5.30 to 7.30 a.m. Characteristicmarkings, manner of flight, and general habits of birds of the plains, stream-side,foot-hills and canons were studied in the field. Mounted specimens were usedfor close-range work in the laboratory. Miss Lillian Finnell, of Tuscaloosa, Ala., gave popularly prepared lectureson birds at the summer schools located at the following places: Meridian andHattiesburg, Miss.; Natchiteches and Baton Rouge, La.; Howard College andMontevalle, Ala.; and at the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa. She alsospoke at the University of Georgia. In addition to these l

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