Black Whiskered Vireo

Identifier: birdlore111909nati (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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To readers of Bird-Lore subscribing now for the National Geographic Magazine wewill send besides the twelve numbers for 1909, the two numbers containing Mr. Shiras140 splendid photographs, as follows : Photographing Wild Game with Flashlight and CameraOne Seasons Game-Bag with the Camera Fill out this blank and mail with remittance. Subscription anywhere in UnitedStates, $2.50; Canada, $3, money order or draft. National Geografhic Magazine, Washington, D. C. Please enter my subscription to begin January, 09, sending also the two num-bers containing Mr. Shiras photograplis. I remit herewith $ Name Street. City.
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1. Warbling Vireo 2. Philadelphia Vireo (one-half natural size) 3. Red-eyed Vireo 4. Black-whiskered Vireo A BI-MONTHLY MAGAZINE DEVOTED TO THE STUDY AND PROTECTION OF BIRDS Official Organ of The Audubon Societies Vol. XI March—April, 1909 No. 2 Chickadee All the Year Round By MARY C. DICKERSON With photographs by the author HE was only a small gray Chickadee who had found a grain of corn, buthad dropped it in the snow as he was flying on his way to the woods.He stopped, hovered in air, then settled lightly beside the hole in thesnow where the corn had disappeared. He looked down into the hole and thrustin his bill. But his efforts to get the corn only pushed it deeper in; at least, downChickadee slowly went—snow over head, shoulders, back and wings—till hewas standing on his head, his tail alone showing and that pointing directly to thesky. Then he appeared again vigorously scattering the snow and shaking hisfeathers. He had the corn! and with a flutter of wings, a rise and a d

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