Identifier: birdlore181916nati (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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bird-housesof merit at a lower cost than you can obtainelsewhere. Learn how to make your gardenteem with life and animation. We sell direct.Write today for Free Catalog. CHICAGO BIRD HOUSE CO. Successers to E. E. Edmanson & Co.616 South Norton Street, Chicago Illinois I should be pleased to have anyMUSEUM or HIGH SCHOOLdesiring to secure an excellentORNITHOLOGICAL andOOLOGICAL COLLECTIONfor study and scientific pur-poses communicate with me. GEO. W. AMES No. 707 Washington AvenueBay City. Mich. Two Cents WillBuy a Birds Portrait like that in this magazine. Itwill be sent to you on a de-tached sheet, ready forframing, and with it willgo an Educational Leafletof four pages, describingthe birds habits, and anoutline plate for coloring. These useful and beautifulcolored portraits of birds areissued by the National Associa-tion oJ Audubon Societies,whichwill send on request a list ofnearly 100 kinds oj nativeAmerican hirers for your choice. Address the Secretary 1974 Broadway, New York
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1. SAGE THRASHER 3. CATBIRD 2. MOCKINGBIRD 4. BROWN THRASHER (One-half natural size) A BI-MONTHLY MAGAZINE DEVOTED TO THE STUDY AND PROTECTION OF BIRDS Official Organ of The Audubon Societies Vol. XVIII May—June, 1916 No. 3 The Chipping Sparrow By NEWTON MILLER, Norton, Mass. With pliotonraphs Ijy the author THAT this would be a dreary old world without birds has been well said.They have come to be an integral part of our lives, largely from theesthetic point of view. The conception, however, that a birds life is allsong and sunshine is misleading to say the least, but it is only comparatively re-cently that any serious attempt has been made to determine the actual workof the songsters. Such is the object of this brief chapter from the lives of apair of Chipping Sparrows, presenting a glimpse, only, into their domesticaffairs. These birds chose, at the end of May, a nesting-site in an evergreen downat the corner of the garden, and early in June a dainty structure of rootlets,lined w

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