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Identifier: birdlore17nati (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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an one thousand tons ofnative-killed game are annually sold inthe markets of France. The Larks of Bel-gium will evidently enjoy a year of unusualfreedom from disturbance. In time ofpeace the people of Belgium export toFrance alone every year more than fiftythousand of these interesting birds. It is apleasure to feel that some small good atleast is to come out of the unspeakableholocaust we are now witnessing inEurope. A Law-Violator Fined Mrs. E. E. Coulson, of Bradentown,Florida, who has long been an activeAudubon worker, recently sent us wordthat King W. Wiggins, a prominentbusiness man of that section, had takenthe game-laws into his own hands, andexceeded the bag-limit by killing fourwild Turkeys in one day. She alsoreported that the local game-wardenseemed disposed to wink at the case. Weat once communicated with E. Z. Jones,State Game Warden, with a result thatWiggins was haled into court and fined.The case created much local interest, andwon increased respect for the game-laws.
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• 1. KENNICOTTS WILLOW WARBLER Seicercus borealis kennicotti [See also subspecies category] now named Phylloscopus borealis kennicotti [See also subspecies category]
• 2. RUBY-CROWNED KINGLET, Male Regulus calendula [See also species category]
• 3. RUBY-CROWNED KINGLET, Female
• 4. GOLDEN-CROWNED KINGLET, Male Regulus satrapa [See also species category]
• 5. GOLDEN-CROWNED KINGLET, Female
• 6. BROWN CREEPER Certhia americana [See also species category]

(One-half Natural Size) 2^irb=1tore A BI-MONTHLY MAGAZINE DEVOTED TO THE STUDY AND PROTECTION OF BIRDS Official Organ of The Audubon Societies Vol. XVII March—April, 1915 No. 2 Bird-Life in Southern IllinoisIII. Larchmound: A Naturalists Diary By ROBERT RIDQ-WAY THE diary for 1913 was, necessarily, started much too late in the seasonto include the spring migration; in fact, the last species to arriveamong the summer residents or transients had come very nearly amonth earlier. The record for 1914, however, extends from the first of theyear to the end of November, broken only by short intervals when there wasnothing special to note, or pressure of other duties required neglect of obser-vations. The Spring of 1914 was by no means an early one, but rather the contrary,and the dates of arrival recorded for sever

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