Bird-lore (1899) (14753196304) - Public domain zoological illustration

Identifier: birdlore12nati (find matches)

Title: Bird-lore

Year: 1899 (1890s)

Authors: National Association of Audubon Societies for the Protection of Wild Birds and Animals

Subjects: Birds -- Periodicals Birds -- Conservation Periodicals

Publisher: New York, National Association of Audubon Societies

Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library

Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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view of aDowny Woodpecker. There is a pair of these birds around here,which you are almost sure to see,-—either together or singly. But it was soon time to go home, and on the way we heardthe lively song of the European Goldfinches, and soon found four ofthem high up in a tree. They are shy birds, and flew as weapproached. They feed on pine cones, and a flock of them will takepossession of a pine tree, hide themselves in the dark tufts of pineneedles, and eat the seeds at their leisure. The only way you canhave knowledge of their presence is by the frequent cracking of theseeds heard. For a long time we thought they were Crossbills, butone day a flock of noisy Sparrows came into the tree and drove thequiet Goldfinches out of their tufts — much to my surprise, for I didnot suppose that Goldfinches, which I had been accustomed to findsinging loudly, could keep so quiet. We also saw a Song Sparrowquietly picking away at some bird-seed scattered there. The Myth of the Song Sparrow 59-

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The Myth of the Song Sparrow BY ERNEST SETON THOMPSON His mother was the Brook, his sisters were the Reeds, And they every one applauded when he sang about his deeds. His vest was white, his mantle brown, as clear as they could be, And his songs were fairly bubbling oer with melody and glee. But an envious Neighbor splashed with mud our Brownies coat and vest,. And then a final handful threw that stuck upon his breast. The Brook-birds mother did her best to wash the stains away. But there they stuck, and, as it seems, are very like to stay. And so he wears the splashes and the mud blotch as you see. But his songs are bubbling over still with melody and glee. J^otes from JTteld and ^tudp Sparrow Proof Houses Mr. D. R. Geery, of Greenwich, Conn.,sends us descriptions of the two bird-houses here figured. When designed forBluebirds, they should be suspended from

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1899

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