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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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lp,but succeeded only in scaring and scattering them. An hour or so after I leftthem, the friendly plum tree held them and then the garden! Snakes and Hawkswere in that garden, and I tried not to think of those fourteen baby Wrensthat had gone to live in it. Evidently Mrs. Jenny believed in the husband looking after the children,for shortly after she was endeavoring to reach her first nest through the window,but it was screened now and she had recourse to the paint-bucket. This timeonly four eggs, four birds, the handy plum tree, the garden that drew themlike an octopus, and her seasons work was done, for autumns yellow sere hadfallen on the meadows, banks, ravines, and hills. Eighteen little Wrens weremothered by this tiny bird in one summer. She knew the number when theyleft the nest. But did she remember when they reached the garden? She is arebuke to those who believe race suicide beneficial, and Johnny lives true tothe tradition of the patriarchal father at the head of the tribe.
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TWO PORTRAITS OF A SITTING WOODCOCK In the upper picture the camera was within \6 inches of the bird, which, however, showed no alarr Photographed bj Ward B Perley, Ji , Ojibway, Ont. (14ft) Some Robins Nests By WILBUR F. SMITH, South Norwalk, Conn.With Photographs by the Author.

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