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    Bird-Lore
    Bird-Lore
    Bird-Lore
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    Bird-Lore

    By Various Various and Frank M. Chapman

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 25, 2013
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      Bird-Lore - Various Various

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Bird-Lore March-April 1916, by Various

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

      almost no restrictions whatsoever.  You may copy it, give it away or

      re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included

      with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org/license

      Title: Bird-Lore March-April 1916

      Author: Various

      Editor: Frank M. Chapman

      Release Date: May 31, 2012 [EBook #39854]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK BIRD-LORE MARCH-APRIL 1916 ***

      Produced by Tom Cosmas, Larry B. Harrison and the Online

      Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net

      March-April, 1916

      CONTENTS

      ⁂ Manuscripts intended for publication, books, etc., for review and exchanges, should be sent to the Editor, at the American Museum of Natural History, 77th St. and 8th Ave., New York City.

      Notices of changes of addresses, renewals and subscriptions should be sent to

      BIRD-LORE, HARRISBURG, PA.

      Please remit by Draft or Money Order

      Important Notice to All Bird-Lore Subscribers

      B

      ird-lore is published on or near the first days of February, April, June, August, October, and December. Failure to secure the copy due you should be reported not later than the 18th of the months above mentioned. We cannot supply missing copies after the month in which the number in question was issued.

      Entered as second-class mail matter in the Post Office at Harrisburg, Pa.

      Send $1 for this famous

      WREN HOUSE

      Known as Jennie’s Choice

      For three seasons Jennie preferred this House where there was a choice of fifty.

      A. P. GREIM

      Birdville       TOMS RIVER, N. J.

      THE JACOBS BIRD-HOUSE COMPANY

      Our Indorsement.

      First American enterprise for the manufacture of

      Bird-Houses and Bird-Feeding Devices

      Over 33 years’ experience by the Pres. Mgr.

      Always leading in the Bird-House enterprise,

      Jacobs Now Pays the Freight

      to your nearest steam railroad freight station!

      Twelve beautiful designs of colony houses for the Purple Martin.

      Individual nest boxes for Wrens, Bluebirds, Swallows, Chickadees, Flickers, Titmice, Woodpeckers, etc.

      Sheltered Feeding Devices and Food Tables, Cement Bird Baths and Drinking Fountains.

      Genuine Government Sparrow Traps.

      Direct from our factory to user at factory prices, thus giving customers the benefit of local dealers’ and agents’ commissions.

      Mention this magazine and send 10 cts. for our beautifully illustrated bird-house booklet.

      JACOBS BIRD-HOUSE COMPANY

      404 S. Washington St., Waynesburg, Pa.

      Just the Book to Interest Children in Bird Study

      LITTLE BIRD BLUE

      By William L. and Irene Finley

      No child can read this beautifully printed and illustrated book without having his love for the bluebird increased; even the adult will find much pleasure in text, illustrations, and exquisite make-up.—Guide to Nature.

      Profusely illustrated with drawings by Bruce Horsfall and photographs

      by Mr. Finley. Price 75 cents net.

      Everything from Soup to Nuts for the Birds

      Try Evang Bros. Mixtseed for Native and Migratory Birds! Large size package, 50 cents.

      230 Main Street Evanston, Illinois

      Bird Gardening

      W

      ALTER M. BUSWELL, at present the Superintendent of the famous Bird Sanctuary of the Meriden Bird Club, is prepared to give expert advice on all matters pertaining to the attraction and protection of birds.

      Address: Meriden, New Hampshire

      I should be pleased to have any MUSEUM or HIGH SCHOOL desiring to secure an excellent ORNITHOLOGICAL and OÖLOGICAL COLLECTION for study and scientific purposes communicate with me.

      GEO. W. AMES

      No. 707 Washington Avenue

      Bay City, Mich.

      To Bird-Lovers

      Use Comstock’s

      BIRD NOTEBOOKS

      Nos. 1 and 2

      in your bird study

      Each book has outlines for recording location, size, nesting, habits, etc., for use in the field. In addition, book No. 1 has 30, and book No. 2 has 28 outline drawings of birds (by Louis Agassiz Fuertes), on watercolor paper for recording the colors.

      These books are used in quantity in classes, rural, city and normal schools and colleges.

      Pocket size, 124 pages

      30 cts. each, 50 cts. set of two

      Send for circular of the Nature

      Notebook Series

      The Comstock Publishing Company

      110 Roberts Place, Ithaca, N. Y.

      Do You Love Birds?

      Encourage them to live in your gardens. Use our successful bird-houses for Wrens, Chickadees, Bluebirds and Purple Martins. Strongly made—well painted, to resist weather. Prices 35¢ to $10. Design illustrated $1 50. Our reliable wire Sparrow Trap endorsed by U. S. Government, $3 F. O. B. Dubuque. Write for free illustrated Folder No. 233-B.

      Farley & Loetscher Mfg. Co., Dubuque, Iowa

      Bird-Lores Wanted

      (The publishers of BIRD-LORE respectfully urge subscribers who desire to have unbroken files of the magazine, to renew their subscription at the time of its expiration.)

      Vol. I, Nos. 2, 3, 4; Vol. II, Nos. 1, 2, 3, 5; Vol. III, Nos. 4, 5; Vol. XIII, Nos. 1, 2.

      Philip Dowell

      , Port Richmond, N. Y.

      Vol. I, Nos. 2, 3, 4, 6; Vol. II, Nos. 2, 3, 5; Vol. III, Nos. 1, 2, 4; Vol. IV, Nos. 1, 2; Vol. V, No. 1; Vol. VII, No. 1; Vol. IX, Nos. 3, 6; Vol. X, Nos. 1, 3, 4, 5; Vol. XII, Nos. 4, 6; Vol. XIII, Nos. 1, 2, 4; Vol. XIV, Nos. 1, 2; Vol. XV, No. 6.

      W. H. Broomhall

      , Stockport, Ohio.

      Vol. XII, No. 5; Vol. XV, No. 6; Vol. XVI, Nos. 1, 2.

      Willard L. Metcalf

      , 140 W. 79th Street, New York.

      Vol. III, No. 2; will pay $2.

      E. W. Hadeler

      , Painesville, Ohio.

      Vol. XIII, No. 1.

      E. S. Wilson

      , 1044 Congress Ave., Indianapolis, Indiana.

      Vol. X, No. 3; will pay $1.

      P. S. McGlynn

      , Moline, Ill.

      Vol. XI, complete.

      A. J. Anderson

      , 1822 West Palmer Avenue, Sioux City, Ia.

      Vol. XVI, Nos. 1, 2.

      A. D. Tinker

      , 631 S. 12th St., Ann Arbor, Mich.

      Publisher’s Note.

      —Complete sets of

      Bird-Lore

      can no longer be supplied by the publishers, and now bring nearly three times the price at which they were issued. To subscribers who desire to complete their files, we offer the free use of our advertising columns.

      (One-half natural size)

      1. Bush-Tit

      2. Lead-colored Bush-Tit

      3. Lloyd’s Bush-Tit

      , Male

      4. Lloyd’s Bush-Tit

      , Female

      5. Verdin

      6. Wren-Tit

      A BI-MONTHLY MAGAZINE DEVOTED TO THE STUDY AND PROTECTION OF BIRDS

      Official Organ of The Audubon Societies

      The World’s Record for Density of Bird Population

      By GILBERT H. GROSVENOR

      Editor of the National Geographic Magazine

      With photographs by the author

      I

      n the winter of 1913, our family bought a farm of one hundred acres, fifty acres in forest and fifty in fields, in Montgomery County, Maryland, about ten miles from Washington. We moved out in April. At the time, no members of the family, including my wife, six children, and myself, could name more than three birds—the Crow, the Robin, and the Turkey Buzzard. We had, however, become interested in birds, owing to our friendship for the Editor of

      Bird-Lore

      , and for other Audubon workers, and determined to see what we could do to get birds around the home, which we named ‘Wild Acres.’

      The house is a typical old farmhouse, surrounded by an old apple and pear orchard, with vegetable garden and hedges, and open fields beyond. Surrounding the fields is a tract

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