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Bird- Lore 



What Bird is This ? 



Field Description. — Length, 5.70. A yellow line before eye and on bend of wing; above, streaked brown, 

 black and blufJ: below, white streaked with black. 



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 June is a Grasshopper Sparrow. 



Questions for Bird Students 



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22. How many common or vernacular names have been applied to the 

 FHcker? 



23. How^ many birds are recorded as having struck the City Hall tow^er 

 in Philadelphia between August 27 and October 31? 



24. How many plumages are worn by Ptarmigan annually? 



25. What reason has been advanced to account for the Shrike's habit 

 of impaling its prey? 



26. How many Ptarmigan wings are known to have been included in 

 one shipment from Archangel, Russia? 



