Identifier: birdlore91907nati (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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Reduced facsimile of the reproduction ofHorsfalla colored drawing of the Evening Gros-beak. Presented to every siabscriber to Vol.IX, 1907, of Bird-Lore. The original,printed on heavy plate paper, suitable forframing, is life-size. Entered as second-class mail matter in the Post Office at Harrisburg, Pa.
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JOHN JAMES AUDUBON From the bust by William Couper in the American Museum of Natural History A BI-MONTHLY MAGAZINEDBVOTED TO THE STUDY AND PROTECTION OF BIRDS Official Ohsan of the Audubon SocicTica Vol. IX January — February, 1907 No. 1 John James Audubon By C. HART MERRIAM OF the naturalists of America no one stands out in more picturesquerelief than Audubon, and no name is dearer than his to the hearts ofthe American people. Born at an opportune time, Audubon undertook and accomplished oneof the most gigantic tasks that has ever fallen to the lot of one man to per-form. Although for years diverted from the path Nature intended him tofollow, and tortured by half-hearted attempts at a commercial life, againstwhich his restive spirit rebelled, he finally, by the force of his own will,broke loose from this bondage and devoted the remainder of his days to thegrand work that has made his memory immortal. His principal contributions to science are his magnificent series of illus-trated v

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