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Bird- Lore 



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What Bird is This ? 



Field Description. — Length, 5.30. Above mixed black, reddish brown, ashy and buff; crown blackish, with 

 a buff line through its center; nape reddish brown, with small black spots; an orange mark before the eye; 

 breast buflfy; belly whitish; no conspicuous streaks below; tail-feathers narrow and pointed. 



Note.— Each number of Bird-Lore will contain a photograph, from specimens in 

 the American Museum of Natural History, of some comparatively little-known bird, or 

 bird in obscure plumage, the name of which will be withheld until the succeeding 

 number of the magazine ; it being believed that this method of arousing the student's 

 curiosity will result in impressing the bird's characters upon his mind. The species 

 figured in April is a young female Blackburnian Warbler. 



Questions for Bird Students 



IV 



17. At about what age do Marsh Hawks begin to fly? 



18. What three reasons have been advanced to account for the belief 

 that singing birds are more abundant in England than in America? 



19. How many specids of birds has an observer in eastern North 

 America recorded as being heard to sing simultaneously one day in June? 



20. At about what age do young Kingfishers leave the nest? 



21. How many times has the Horned Lark been known to feed its 

 young in an hour ? 



