Bird LoreMacmillan Company, 1913 - Birds |
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00 I OO April Association of Audubon Audubon Societies bill BIRD-LORE bird-protection Blue Jay Bluebird breeding Brown Creeper California Cardinal Carolina Wren Carried forw'd Catbird Chapman Chickadee closed season Club coast colored coöperation Crow Downy Woodpecker Duck eggs Egret feathers feeding female Flicker flock Florida Fox Sparrow George Golden-crowned Kinglet Goldfinch Grosbeak ground Gull Hairy Woodpecker Heron Horned Lark inches of snow insects interest Ipswich Island Jamaica Plain John Junco Leaflets male March Meadowlark migration Miss National Association nature nature-study nest North American birds northern notes observed October OO I OO ornithologists P.M. Clear photographs plumage protection Red-breasted Red-breasted Nuthatch Robin Ruffed Grouse Sandpiper schools seen Song Sparrow southern Sparrow Hawk species spring Starling summer temp tion Total Tree Sparrow Tufted Titmouse Warbler White-breasted Nuthatch White-throated Sparrow wild birds William wind wings winter woods young birds
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Page 231 - Maine New Hampshire Vermont Massachusetts Rhode Island Connecticut New York New Jersey Pennsylvania Ohio Indiana Illinois Michigan Wisconsin Minnesota Iowa Missouri North Dakota South Dakota Nebraska Kansas...
Page 262 - There's a merry brown thrush sitting up in the tree ; He's singing to me ! he's singing to me ! And what does he say, little girl, little boy? Oh, the world's running over with joy. Don't you hear? don't you see? Hush ! look in my tree ! I'm as happy as happy can be.
Page 143 - ... and artificial or ornamental feathers, fruits, grains, leaves, flowers, and stems or parts thereof, of whatever material composed...
Page 136 - That nothing herein contained shall be deemed to affect or interfere with the local laws of the States and Territories for the protection of non-migratory game or other birds resident and breeding within their borders, nor to prevent the States and Territories from enacting laws and regulations to promote and render efficient the regulations of the Department of Agriculture provided under this statute.
Page 231 - Administration to carry out this responsibility in a 10-State area consisting of West Virginia, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, and Kentucky. Broad objectives The agency's overall, continuing objectives are defined by section 5. Under its terms the agency is required to "transmit and dispose...
Page 262 - So the merry brown thrush sings away in the tree, To you and to me, to you and to me; And he...
Page 79 - Other lesser bodies also united with each other as they happened to approach, with such ease and elegance of -evolution, forming new figures, and varying these as they united or separated, that I was never tired of contemplating them. Sometimes a hawk would make a...
Page 136 - The Department of Agriculture, after the preparation of said regulations, shall cause the same to be made public, and shall allow a period of three months in which said regulations may be examined and considered before final adoption, permitting, when deemed proper, public hearings thereon, and after final adoption shall cause the same to be engrossed and submitted to the President of the United States for approval : Provided, however, That nothing herein contained shall be deemed...
Page 136 - The Department of Agriculture is hereby authorized and directed to adopt suitable regulations to give effect to the previous paragraph by prescribing and fixing closed seasons, having due regard to the zones of temperature, breeding habits, and times and line of migratory flight...
Page 230 - Band-tailed pigeons, little brown, sandhill and whooping cranes, swans, curlew and all shorebirds (except the black-breasted and golden plover, Wilson or jack snipe, woodcock, and the greater and lesser yellowlegs...