The Auk, Volume 34American Ornithologists' Union, 1917 |
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abundant Acadian April Audubon Beach Biological Survey bird migration Birds Australia Black-throated Blue Warbler Bombycilla breeding British Birds Bull Bulletin California Cape May Warbler Carolina Chickadees coast collected color common County December Dendroica ducks eggs Ernst Hartert February feeding feet female flock genus Grinnell Grosbeak Gull habits Hartert Hawk Horned Lark Hudsonian hudsonicus inches interesting Iowa Island January July June Labrador later Linnæus male Mass Mathews migration Museum Natashquan nest northern Notes November Oberholser observed October Orange-crowned Warbler Ornithological Ornithologists pair Palm Warbler paper Penthestes plumage Proc Professor Beal Puffinus race records region Report resident Ridgway Sandpiper seen Sept September Sitta carolinensis South South Australian Ornithologist southern Sparrow species specimens spring subspecies summer taken Thrush tion tree U. S. Nat valley Vireo visited Warbler Washington wing winter Wren young Zool Zoological
Popular passages
Page 98 - to my hospitable friends. I turned away from Labrador with very different feelings from those of Audubon, who recorded in his ' Journal':'" Seldom in my life have I left a country with as little regret as I do this.
Page 352 - College, a position which he held at the time of his death. He published a small volume entitled "200 wild Birds of Iowa
Page 119 - Everything carries back the mind to a remote age; to a time when Cicero and Virgil were hardly known in Italy; to a time compared with which the time of Politian and even the time of
Page 239 - The Indians who killed those tagged geese said that they seemed to be tamer than the others and came out of large flocks and down to the decoys when the rest of the band would not turn. " About three miles north of Fort George Post there is a big Bay (salt water) with
Page 348 - When we look, for instance, at the coat of a zebra with its thunder-andlightning pattern of black and white stripes, we should think such a conspicuous object
Page xxxv - plates. The new and heretofore unfigured species of the 'Birds of North America
Page 352 - He lived most of his life in West Chester, having received his education in the schools of his native county and at the University of Michigan, at which
Page 119 - They amused me as the pictures in very old Bibles used to amuse me when I was a child.
Page 353 - Rust Commission. The duties of these positions took him all over the eastern end of the state and kept him out of doors where he could indulge his passion for botany and ornithology. He was a member of the Philadelphia Botanical Club and of the Delaware Valley Ornithological Club and kept constantly in touch with men in these fields.—
Page 181 - has, however, one note which seems to be peculiarly its own, a very abrupt, double-syllabled utterance with a rising inflection which comes in with the