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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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remarked, Why, mother, she's forgotten all about her other husband and has gone away wit ha new one!—Mabel L. C. Bowes, Utica, N. Y. Bluebird Feeding Its Mate At no time of the year are the human-like instincts of birds so strikingly developed as in the nesting season. One of the many pretty things not uncommonly done by nesting birds is for the male to bring food to his mate while she sits on her nest. Still this is clearly a case of mere instinct growing out of the necessity of Notes from Field and Study 245 the situation. In the following incident there was apparently no such necessity. Though I am under the impression of having seen a few other similar acts, in no other case were the details so striking as in this one at Kingston, N. Y., on May 18. A pair of Bluebirds had a nest in a low, hollow stump on the edge of a pond. From the direction of this stump I saw the dull-colored female fly to an orchard nearby. A lighting on the upper branch of an appletree, she called repeatedly, using exactly
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BLUEBIRD FEEDING ITS MATE Drawn from nature by Edmund Joseph Sawyer 246 Bird-Lore the notes of a young Bluebird and imitating perfectly all the fluttering actions of a young bird begging for food. Her mate had been near her in the tree, but he flew away and soon returned with food which he tenderly placed in her open bill, while she continued to flutter and beg for it. After a little while both flew away in the same direction.—Edmund J. Sawyer, Watertown, N. Y. Notes on Albino Robins As albino birds of any kind always attract special attention among people, I thought the following notes might be of interest to Bird-Lores readers. In 1917 a partially albino male Robin was seen several times near my home in

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