Bird lore (1903) (14564136779) - Public domain zoological illustration

Identifier: birdlore51903nati (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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onshooting until you killed as many as you liked. If you missed the firstshot they would fly away. This kind of gunning went on until aboutthirty years ago. There were lots of them left, plenty of deer and othergame, until the gunners from the cities heard of it. They gunned in allseasons, and soon killed them off. Since that time there has not beena Grouse killed on our Plains. I have seen five deer in one look, andnow there is not one left in Burlington or Ocean county. ThesePlains I speak of are twelve miles west of Barnegat. There are severalhundred acres in each and they are about three miles apart, with swampsand woods between them. The Plains are covered with small pines aboutthree feet high. All through them there is a little vine that bears redberries about the size of a cranberry and keeps sound and good the yearround. It is called the grouse berry. This berry the Grouse lived onin winter. In summer they lived on tea-berry and others. Yours respectfully, George H. Van Note.
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HEATH. HENFrom u mounted specimen in the American Museum of Natural Histor Nesting of the Ruby - crowned Kinglet BY ANNA HEAD ON the edge of a Sierra meadow, on the shore of Lake Tahoe,there is a grove of tamarack trees, growing in very open order.The roots remain submerged until July. As the water that hasflooded the meadow subsides, a growth of lush grass and mosses, starredwith dwarf mimulus, violet and strawberry blossoms, covers the ground, andlater the spikes of the white orchid and quaint elephant-heads appear.Here the bird-lover will do well to spend many hours, in spite of, or per-haps it would be truer to say, because of, the swarms of gnats, flies andmosquitoes that find here a congenial breeding-place. Attracted by theseare several species of Flycatchers, Arctic Bluebirds, Wrens and all the hostof insect-feeders. The dead and dying trees furnish food and house-roomfor several kinds of Woodpeckers, while Blackbirds and Robins forage inthe rich soil at their feet. One bright