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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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thrive side by side. As the Gardensare within the limits of New York City, shooting of the birds is not allowed bylaw. Sparrow traps have been tried with some success, and killing them bymeans of poison-soaked grain; but, with all these, getting rid of the Sparrowand minimizing the cats remain the chief problems in the suburban com-munity. Nesting-boxes have been put freely in the Gardens—a number of themmade by the Journeymans Class of the Junior Branch, which meets once aweek in winter. A course in elementary ornithology has been started in the public school,and special lectures and field excursions provided for the children. Even thevery young children have been organized into neighborhood groups. Giving the birds a newspaper was the idea of one of the trustees of theGardens Society, and here, as always, the Society had the hearty cooperationof the Sage Foundation Homes Company, the owners and developers of theGardens. The Homes Company gave ten ornamental iron bulletin boards—
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THE BIRDS POOL AT FOREST HILLSDesigned by Frederick Law Olmsted. (369) 37© Bird - Lore designed by Mr. Grosvenor Atterbury—which are attached to the lamp-posts,and are supplied each week with fresh items of bird-lore. A constant educational campaign is kept up by means of free circulationof the federal and state pamphlets relating to birds, and the selling at cost ofvarious Audubon matter, and particularly Reeds Bird Guide, an invaluablehandbook for the beginner. The Queensborough Branch of the Public Library is arranging to circulatebooks on nature subjects selected by the Audubon Society, and the Societyhopes, in time, to gather together a reference library of its own. On the 5th of July, which was Community Day at the Gardens, the bird-fountain in one of the parks, named for Mrs. Russell Sage—Olivia,—wasdedicated to the people with appropriate ceremonies. While this is the largestand most elaborate of the bird-fountains, there are many others in the indi-vidual gardens—var

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