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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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they had caughtit when very young upon another Key, and that, by systematically feeding it,they were able soon to give it its freedom, without the Heron showing any desireto leave their fishing station, where it voluntarily remained throughout the year. The extent of the taming of this beautiful Heron was such that had I beenone of the familiar fishermen, with a fish in my hand instead of a camera, I prob-ably could have handed the fish to the bird. Now I venture the assertion that there are today few American birds that willbe found as wild and as shy as the Great White Heron. Hunted by man, almostto the point of extermination, the majority of the remaining individuals of thisspecies have been driven to the most inaccessible localities. It accordingly seems to me that the accompanying photograph of this rareand beautiful bird, which I took upon the occasion mentioned, offers a strikingillustration of what can be expected from the continued kind treatment of any ofour wild creatures.
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GREAT WHITE HERONPhotographed by Norman McCUntock (») Breeding of the American Crossbill By P. B. PEABODY With Photographs by the Author : DATA for the breeding of the Crossbills of North America are so diffusivelyshelved in the great libraries of our country, and the statements oflumber-jacks* (thus called in the West), as given in a late numberof Bird-Lore, are so inadequate and so misleading, that the writer has thoughtit no impertinence to give the readers of Bird-Lore the summary of notes thathave been a-gathering during the past five years. In the West we see the Crossbill(Loxia curvirostra stricklandi) only in July and August. It comes down fromthe regions of the conifers, at that time, accompanied by its recently fledgedyoung, to fatten on the seeds of sunflowers and other like plants. (It is, of course,the varying and local character of the most of the conifers that makes all Cross-bills prone to wander.) From the (manuscript) pages of my Nesting Ways ofNorth American Birds

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