Identifier: birdlore51903nati (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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ls prepared by the Parisian modistesfor the coming fall and winter season, weare deepy impressed by the fact that therewill be more than an ordinary demand forbirds and bird plumage of a variety ofstyles. Under these conditions, some deal-ers may be tempted to turn an honest (?)penny by investing in goods that are, touse an old army phrase, contraband ofwar —in other words, in violation of va-rious state game laws. Dealers are warnedagainst indulging in any method of buyingor selling such merchandise that is in viola-tion of the agreement of the Millinery Mer-chants Protective Association and the Au-dubon Societies, as all violations of lawcoming to the knowledge of the members ofthe association will be reported to the properauthorities, and punishment meted out tothose who knowingly transgress the law.There is an abundance of birds and plum-age in the market that can be sold safelyand at a fair profit without having recourseto law-breaking. — Millinery Trade Re-vie-iv for July. r
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SECTION OF TELEGRAPH POLE FROM ARIZONA, SHOWING ACORNS STORED BY CALIFORNIA VVOODltL I(Pho-ographed from the specimen in the American Museum of Natural History. For exhibition purposes a mountedCalifornia Woodpecker has been placed on the pole) i&irli = £cire A BI-MONTHLY MAGAZINEDEVOTED TO THE STUDY AND PROTECTION OF BIRDS Official Organ of the Audubon Societies Vol. V September—October, 1903 No. 5 The Mystery of the Black-billed Cuckoo BY GERALD H. THAYER INCREDULITY will doubtless be the predominant note in thereception of the strange tale which I am about to unfold, yet livingevidence of its truth is yearly accessible to any one who has leisureand inclination to seek it. I refer to the mid-summer, mid-night, mid-sky gyrations of the Black-billed Cuckoo, as noted by my father and mefor three consecutive seasons in the southwestern corner of New Hamp-shire. Here, in the country immediately surrounding Mt. Monadnock,the Black-billed Cuckoo is a fairly common summer resident, w

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