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Title: Bird lore
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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ough the collecting of the eggs, but usually also by killing oneor other of the parents for purposes of identification. All this destruction isthe more effective in that it must needs be carried out during the breedingseason, at the very time when it most securely tends to exile birds fromtheir home areas. The argument that the taking of the nests and eggs isnecessary to establish breeding records will not hold, for the sight of thenest or as frequently the behavior of the old birds demonstrates whetherthey are breeding in a particular locality or not. Oologists are verily anni-hilating both the goose and its goiden eggs, and they deceive themselveswhen they consider it scientific work. The World-Problem By S. S. TOWLES The bees hum it over and overTo the nodding heads of the clover,And every sweet-throated roverCalls it aloud from the trees. It sounds in mans ears forever, And he hears—but listens to it, never— For he is far, far too clever To be taught by the birds and the bees.
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CALIFORNIA MOUNTAIN PARTRIDGEFrom a group in the American Museum of Natural History (99) jfor Ceacl)er0 anh ;3>tutient0 The Migration of Warblers SIXTEENTH PAPER Compiled by Professor W. W. Cooke, Chiefly from Datain the Biological Survey With drawings by Louis Agassiz Fuertes and Bruce Horsfall OVENBIRDSPRING MIGRATION Atlantic Coast— Raleigh, N. C ... French Creek, W. Va Variety Mills, Va Washington, D. C Beaver, Pa Berwyn, Pa Renovo, Pa Englewood, N. J New Providence, N.J Southeastern New York Alfred, N. Y Northeastern New York Hartford, Conn Framingham, Mass St. Johnsbury, Vt Southern New Hampshire .... Southern Maine Montreal, Can Southern New Brunswick .... Central Nova Scotia North River, Prince Edward Island Mississippi Valley— New Orleans, La Eubank, Ky St. Louis, Mo Brookville, Ind Waterloo, Ind Oberlin, Ohio Chicago, 111. ... Southern Wisconsin Petersburg, Mich Detroit, Mich Southern Ontario Parry Sound District, Ont. . . . •Ottawa, Ont Keokuk, Iowa . . Sabula, Iow

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