Bird-Lore, Volume I—1899

The first step in repressing any wrong is for some individual to take a firm stand, even in the face of the greatest discouragement. Another will follow, and then another, and b...

A single experiment taught me the inadvisability of leaving the camera exposed for any length of time to these conditions. I had been trying to get a large photograph of Horned...

My first Warbler in the spring is usually the Yellow Redpoll, which I see in April. It is not a bird of the trees and woods, but of low bushes in the open, often alighting upon...

The chimney was much used by this interesting family until the 24th of August. Early in the morning of that day a large number of Swifts were seen gathering in a flock at a shor...

Bird-Lore for August will contain an article by Bradford Torrey; A paper on How to Photograph Wild Birds, by Richard Kearton, the most successful of bird photographers; A poem b...

PAGE Frontispiece--Golden Eagle. Photographed from life by _H. W. Nash_. A Search for the Reedy Island Crow Roost. _Witmer Stone_ 177 Illustrated by _W. Gordon Smith_. Winter Bi...

After seeing Dr. Roberts' interesting Chickadee photographs, published in the first number of Bird-Lore, my ambition was aroused to discover a nest of this species so situated a...

For photographing ground builders, such as Larks, Plovers, and so on, we built an artificial rubbish heap, such as farmers rake up off their grass land before laying it down to...

A few weeks later the same group acted in an entirely different manner; then they remained together, and as the boat approached, the old bird with its bill seemed to push the yo...

In extending a helping hand to casual and isolated observers, the Union has had a marked influence upon the recent progress of ornithology in America, as shown by the increase i...

In educational work we have secured the publication of a paper on 'The Relation of Birds to Trees,' by Florence A. Merriam, in the annual Arbor Day Manual of New York State, and...

The light of day is waning fast, and the smoky air gets dim and misty. The assembled Eaves are now seen to rise in clouds from their oasis, mix their forces with the invading ar...

Off to one side, among the more scrubby deciduous growth, I could hear, and sometimes see, a Redstart, while the _tse-tse-tse_-ing of the Black-poll Warblers, which were migrati...

The only way to accomplish this, to my thinking, is to take the children out-of-doors and introduce them to the 'bird in the bush,' to the bird as a citizen of a social world as...

'The Ugly Duckling,' 'The Daisy and the Lark,' Hans Christian Anderson; 'The White Heron,' Sarah Orne Jewett; 'The White Blackbird,' Guy de Maupassant; 'The Crane Express,' Chil...

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Until recently this theory has lacked confirmation, but I now learn from Dr. William R. Brooks, Director of Smith Observatory, at Geneva, N. Y., that during the evening of May 2...

Notes on the Flammulated Screech Owls, Harry C. Oberholser; Three Years' Migration data on City Hall Tower, Philadelphia, Wm. L. Baily; A Quantitative Study of Variation in the...

'Wilson Bulletin,' No. 26, issued May 30, 1899, has an extremely interesting paper by its editor, Lynds Jones, recording the number of species observed by him on May 8, in Lorai...

An exhibition of birdless hats--'Audubonnets' as they have been facetiously styled--was held in the parlors of the Narragansett Hotel, in Providence, on the 9th of October. The...

Let it suffice to say, that the weight of common sense, of real humanity, and of economics, as well as of science in overwhelming measure, was, in the judgment of the best infor...

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With Keys to the Species; Descriptions of their Plumages, Nests, etc.; their Distribution and Migrations. By Frank M. Chapman. With nearly 200 Illustrations. 12mo. Library Editi...

"No book of the season is more sure of a warm welcome than this delightful volume of Messrs. Richard and Cherry Kearton. We can safely prophesy for it a widespread popularity, f...

RICHARD LYDEKKER PROF. CHARLES S. ROY AND ROBERT W. SHUFELDT Author (with Sir W. H. FLOWER) of "An Introduction to Late U. S. Army. Author of "The the Study of Mammals," etc. My...