Bird lore (1901) (14749171911) - Public domain zoological illustration

Identifier: birdlore31901nati (find matches)
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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renewal has beenoverlooked. We trust it will now receive prompt attention. Compete sets of Volumes I and II of Bird-Lore can still be supplied. Volume I contains 206 pases, with 79 illustrations; Volnme II, 204 pages, with 80 illus-trations, or a total of 4X0 pages (equivalent to about 800 pages of the average l2mo book),and 159 illustrations Every number of Bird-Lore is as readable and valuable today as when it was issued,and no bird-lover who is not alreaiv supplied can find a better investment than the backvolumes of Bird-Lore, which are offered at the subscription price of $1 each, postpaid. PUBLISHERS ANNOUNCEMENT .\inon.g the more interesting contents of Bird-Lore for December will be an article by ErnestSetoii-Thompson on The Recognition Marks of Birds, with figures of 18 species of Hawks andOwls, and the first paper, in a series to continue through the year, on How to Name the Birds byIrank .M. Chapman. Entered as second-class mail matter in the Post Office at Harrisburg, Pa.
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COPVRiaHT. taoi, BV FRANK M . CHAPMAN iSirti^lare November - December, 1901 CONTENTS GENERAL ARTICLES Frontispiece.— A Sitting Ptarmigan : Evan Lewis . Recognition Marks of Birds. Illustrated by the author .... Ernest Setoit-Thompson 187 A Bird of the Season. Illustrated by the author . . . . . . . C. William Beebe 190 Mockingbird Notes. Illustrated by A. Radclyffe Dugmoie . . Mrs. Lticy Gould Baldwin 192 A Christmas Bird Census -193 A New Device for Securing Birds Pictures. Illustrated .... Frank M. Chapman . . 194 Bird-Life in the Klondike ... Tappan Adney . On Hearing a Winter Wren Sing in Winter. Verse Lynn Tew Sprague Yellow-bellied Sapsucker. Illustration Thos. S. Roberts . FOR TEACHERS AND STUDENTS How to Na.me the Birds Illustrated Frank M. Chapmaii . . 200 What Bird is This? Illustration 206 FOR YOUNG OBSERVERS My Bird Restaurant. Illustrated Edmund I(\ Sinnott . . la-j A Prize Offered 208 NOTES FROM FIELD AND STUDY 209 Taming a Nuthatch, E. M. Mead: A Ptarmigans Nest, Evan