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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l and geological, and with it a free mingling of the historical, the romantic and the adventurous. There is, however, a commend ableabsence of the . . . exaggeration of the human-like qualities in animals. Along with this popularity the scientific accuracy of the book is well recognized, and it has been adopted as a book of instruction in colleges. Nowhere else is so intelligently traced the relation between the past (fossil history) and the present of the families in this most important of all animal tribes; nowhere else will be found explained many curious customs, such as the origin of the habit of storing winterfood, how the opossum came to play possum, etc. By the same author WILD NEIGHBORS: Outdoor Studies in the United States With numerous photographic illustrations. Cloth, $1.50 Such pleasant books as this of Mr. Ingersoll are delightful to both old and young, and ought to be put into the hands of every lad on the farm. DetroitFree Press. THE MACMILLAN COMPANY, PUBLISHERS NEW YORK
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A BI-MONTHLY MAGAZINE DEVOTED TO THE STUDY AND PROTECTION OF BIRDS Official Organ of the Audubon Societies Vol. XI September—October, 1909 No. 5 The Courtship of Black Ducks By EDMUND J. SAWYER, Schenectady. N. Y. Illustrated by the author ON April 16, 1908, at Hogansburg, N. Y., two Black Ducks began to appear regularly in early morning in a rather more secluded part of the pastures. The ground here was more closely hemmed in by woods. Several ponds, the largest covering half an acre, with numerous cedar and willow bushes intervening, attracted the birds. One morning, just before sunrise, these Ducks treated me to a spectacle as fine as any it has been my lot to see in the bird world. It was about a quarter of five when, as I neared the ponds, seven or eight Black Ducks flushed a hundred yards ahead. After watching them circle off out of sight, my back being then turned to the pond, I glanced about just in time to see two Ducks droppin ginto the water. A minute later, a bunch of five or six

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