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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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onlyway to stop such an unholy traffic, in thelives of these beautiful and innocent crea-tures, is to have enacted international laws,prohibiting the possession and sale of thefeathers of all wild birds. It is now timefor the Foreign Societies for the protectionof wild birds to join with the AmericanSociety (National Association of AudubonSocieties), in an attempt to secure an inter-national agreement to prohibit possession,sale, export and import of the feathers of allwild birds.—W. D. The Virginia Creeper as a WinterFood for Birds.—In the July Auk aninteresting and valuable article is publishedon this subject. The concluding paragraphis a suggestive hint to all bird-lovers or land-owners. The plant retains its fruit almosthalf the year and is therefore particularlyvaluable as an early spring bird food. Tothose who care to attract winter birds, theVirginia creeper, both from its usefulness inthis respect and on account of its appearance,is to be recommended most highly.—W. D. \
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BLUE JAY Order—Passeres Family—CorviD/E Genus—Cyanocitta Species—Cristata The Blue Jay By WILLIAM DUTCHER President of the National Association of Audubon Societies /Rational Association of ftuoubon Societies EDUCATIONAL LEAFLET NO. 22 And startle from his ashen spray,Across the glen, the screaming Jay. It certainly is a tyro in bird study who does not know this noisy braggartfellow with his inquisitive ways. Such characteristics usually repel, but inthe case of the Blue Jay they rather attract, and no one can help admiringthis conspicuous member of the Corvine family. He has all the cunning ofhis somber-hued cousins the Crows, but not their sedateness; he is life andactivity personified. Another member of this family, the Magpie, attracted the notice of bothAristotle and Pliny, the former of whom says, the Pica oftentimes changesits notes, for almost every day it utters different cries. When acorns growscarce, it gathers them and keeps them hidden in store. The first statemen

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