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Excerpt from The Warblers of North AmericaBut these dainty, fascinating sprites of the tree-tops are elusive. Years of observation may be required to add to one's list of field acquaintances the last of the thirty-odd species which, in eastern North America, may be found at a single locality.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproducti...

Excerpt from Color Key to North American Birds: With Bibliographical Appendix FrankWide experience has shown the writer, however, that where one dead bird is identified, hundreds of attempts are made to name the living bird in nature. This is to be expected. It is the natural Outcome of the recent remarkable interest in the study of birds which, fostered by Audubon Societies and nature study teachers, has assumed an ethical and educational imp...

Excerpt from Bird-Lore, 1901, Vol. 3: An Illustrated Bi-Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Study and Protection of BirdsBelding, Lyman, April and May bird-life at Stockton, Calif., 67, Summer Birds of Stockton, Calif., 104, Birds of Stockton and Vicinity, 137.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. ...

Excerpt from Bird-Lore, Vol. 22: January February, 1920They also come into the barnyards and feed with the chickens, and into the gardens, where I have seen them jump up and strip the pole beans from the poles. They eat almost any kind of weed seed, that of the burdock being a favorite. Vii? When we have heavy snows that lay on the ground for a long time, the Pheasants have a very hard time of it and can be seen wandering over the fields, sear...

Excerpt from Bird-Lore, 1917, Vol. 19: An Illustrated Bi-Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Study and Protection of BirdsBittern, American, 264, figured, 265, Least, figured facing, 127.Blackbird, Brewer's 341, Red-winged, 134, 144, 152. Rusty, 152. 153, 154, 209. 210, Thick-billed Red-winged, 154.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reprodu...

Excerpt from Bird-Lore, 1902, Vol. 4: An Illustrated Bi-Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Study and Protection of BirdsDutcher, William, Minutes of the First Meeting of the National Committee of the Audubon Societies of the United States, 104.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books ...

Excerpt from Bird Lore, 1905, Vol. 7: An Illustrated Bi-Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Study and Protection of BirdsIf our interest in birds and their protection has waned in late autumn and early winter, we feel a new impetus. The shortest day has passed, Spring is ahead of us. What shall we do to earn the joy of it when it comes? There is legislation to be watched, there are laws to be enforced, people to be persuaded, children to be taught...

Excerpt from Bird-Lore, 1915, Vol. 17: An Illustrated Bi-Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Study and Protection of BirdsNature Study Society of Rockford, Christmas Census, 43. Eff, Johnson and Ira Neff, Christmas Census, 39.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-a...

Excerpt from Bird-Lore, 1903, Vol. 5: An Illustrated Bi-Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Study and Protection of BirdsHead, Anna, A Christmas Bird Census, 20, Nesting of the Ruby - crowned Kinglet, 52, Nesting Habits of Two Flycatchers at Lake Tahoe, 153.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. For...

Excerpt from Bird-Lore, 1910, Vol. 12: An Illustrated Bi-Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Study and Protection of BirdsWhat is probably a typical nest of the American Crossbill is described by Mr. Bicknell. The locality was, Riverdale, a suburb of New York City. The nest was placed eighteen feet from the ground in a scantily branched cedar. The nest mass was inwrought with a number of the cedar twigs. Bits of spruce made up the nest foundation....

Excerpt from Bird-Lore, 1909, Vol. 11: An Illustrated Bi-Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Study and Protection of BirdsCooke, W. W The Migration of Flycatchers, 12, The Migration of Vireos, 78, 118, 165, The Migration of North American Spar rows, 254.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgott...

Excerpt from The Distribution of Bird Life in the Urubamba Valley of Peru: A Report on the Birds Collected by the Yale University-National Geographic Society's ExpeditionsIn collecting birds Mr. Heller attempted to secure species rather than specimens and his collection, therefore, contains a much larger number of forms than its size would lead one to expect.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic...

Excerpt from Bird Lore, Vol. 4: An Illustrated Bi-Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Study and Protection of BirdsDutcher, William, Minutes of the First Meeting of the National Committee of the Audubon Societies of the United States, 104.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses s...

Excerpt from Bird-Lore, 1917, Vol. 19: An Illustrated Bi-Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Study and Protection of BirdsBurtch, Verdi, Photographs by, facing 127, 318. 341, The Great Blue Herons of Honeoye, 73 The Summer Life of the Virginia Rail, 243.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgott...

Excerpt from Bird-Lore, 1918, Vol. 20: An Illustrated Bi-Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Study and Protection of BirdsThis island, he states, is about twelve miles long by one wide and is devoted may to sheep-raising, supporting about three thousand sheep. Here he found egentoopenguinslandingon thesouth sidcot the island, valkinga mile er their accustomed path, passing at timesthrough flocks of feeding sheep lettings association - to their nes...

Excerpt from Bird Lore: An Illustrated Bi-Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Study and Protection of BirdsAs an ornithologist. He was eminent as an anatomist. Systematist, nomenclator. Bibliographer. And biographer. Doubtless his peers exist in any of these branches cl the science cl birds. But one searches in vain for another individual who might claim to be his equal in all, and this deliberate estimate at his rank places Elliott Cones foremost...

Excerpt from Bird-Lore, 1911, Vol. 13: An Illustrated Bi-Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Study and Protection of BirdsMitchell, I. N, W. H. Cheer, L. T. Gould, F. W. Ells, R.ev J. Oastler and S. A. Leonard, Christmas Census, 38.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of...

Excerpt from Bird-Life: A Guide to the Study of Our Common BirdsHow unusual it is to meet any one who can correctly name a dozen of our birds! One may live in the country and still know only two or three of the one hundred and fifty or more kinds of birds that may be found during the year. Nevertheless, these gay, restless creatures, both by voice and action, constantly invite our attention, and they are far too interesting and beautiful to be...

Excerpt from Camps and Cruises of an OrnithologistThese groups are designed to illustrate not only the habits and haunts of the birds shown, but also the country in which they live. The birds and, in most instances, their nests and young, are therefore placed in a facsimile reproduction, containing from sixty to one hun dred and sixty square feet of the locality in which they are found, and to this realistic representation of their habitat is ...

Excerpt from Bird-Lore, 1918, Vol. 20: An Illustrated Bi-Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Study and Protection of BirdsEvans, W. Conroy, A Winter House Wren, 159, From Sunset to Sunrise with the Martins Dur ing the flocking-time, 296.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses sta...