Bird lore (1908) (14564437537) - Public domain zoological illustration

Identifier: birdlore101908nati (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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eptember September September September October 12 October 13 October 13 November 190123, 1888 28, 1898188527, 190527, 1899, 1890, 1889, 1888, 19022, 1900188913, 190611, 1887 27, 1898 29, 1902 28, 1885, 1906, 1891, 189123, 1885 The Wood Pewee begins its southward migration so early that it was seenin southeastern Nicaragua August 21, 1892, and arrived August 21, 1889 atSan Jose, Costa Rica. 170 Bird - Lore WESTERN WOOD PEWEE SPRING MIGRATION PLACE Number of years record Average date ofspring arrival Earliest date ofspring arrival Southern California Southern Arizona 5 4 4 5 7 April 19 May 17May 17May 27May 27 April 15, 1907April 27, 1885May 9, 1889May 15, 1906May 20, 1897May 22, 1904May 22, 1892May 3, 1899 .Beulah, Colo Columbia Falls, Mont Aweme, Manitoba Red Deer, Alberta Skagway, Alaska EALL MIGRATION Some dates of the last seen are : Aweme, Man., September 13, 1902 ; Colum-bia Falls, Mont., September 9, 1895; Beulah, Colo., September 5, 1903;Southern California, September 30, 1894.
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FEMALE NIGHTHAWKPhotographed by Warren C. Tudbury, May 26, 1906, at Goldens Bridge, N. Y ffiotte from jFtelD anD istutip Observations on a Tame Loon A Loon, or Great Northern Diver, wasreceived at the New York Aquarium inSeptember, 1907, where it was kept inone of the large salt-water pools for abouta month, when it was sent to the Zoo-logical Park. It came from the UnitedStates Fisheries Station at Woods Hole,Mass., where it had been kept all summerin a large salt water basin adjoining thewharf piers. The Aquarium pool, which is twenty-eight feet long and three feet deep, con-tained at the same time a collection ofdogfish (Squalus), skates and sculpins.Although the Loon was supplied with anabundance of live killifishes, its activityled it to strike frequently at the largefishes, and it succeeded in swallowing oneof the sculpins with a head larger than itsown. The other sculpins were too large tobe swallowed. Although supplied with a dry platformon which to rest, it never left the wat