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Title: Birds in their relations to man; a manual of economic ornithology for the United States and Canada
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Weed, Clarence Moores, 1864-1947 Dearborn, Ned
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: Philadelphia London : Lippincott
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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-robbing small boy.Hunting birds nests is apparently an original sin, born in theflesh and bound to crop out. Properly handled, it need beneither condoned nor condemned. The considerate teacherwill take the bull by the horns by asking his pupils to findnests. He wdll require an account at stated intervals of theposition and architecture of nests, the number and appearanceof eggs, period of incubation, and length of time the youngremain in the nest. The short-sighted ))olicy of taking eggswill thus be overcome. There should be no honor in failure.None should receive credit Avho are not able to report theyoung safely on the wing. Of course the teacher shouldhave a lively interest in the niatter himself, and be able toadvise in many ways, but this much granted, the i)lan willwork.^ ^ In this school work The Bird Calendar, hy Clarence Moores Weed,will be found useful. It enables the pupil to keep his record clearly andsystematically. It is ))ul)lished by Rand, McNally &: Co., Chicago.
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CHAPTER XXII. THE CONSERVATION OF BIRDS (Concluded).II. THE GAME-BIRDS. The term game-birds is at present held to comprise the fol-lowing four orders of birds : An.^eres, ducks, geese, and swans ;Falxdicohv, cranes, rails, coots, and gallinules ; LbnU-ohv, shorebirds ; GaUhice, grouse and quail. The members of the orderCohimhce^ pigeons and doves, have been generally consideredgame, and still are by many; but these birds have become soscarce that it is plainly unwise to treat them as game anylonger. For the same reason certain species belonging to theorders above named should be taken from the game list, tem-porarily at least. The cranes are such birds. Flickers, larks,robins, and similar birds, formerly called game, as we haveseen, by right are game no longer. Either by decrease or bya demonstrated superior living value the accepted list of game-birds has been growing shorter. It is the purpose of thischapter to find the cause and trace the course of this tendency. Prior to the sett

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