The Audubon Societies 



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Geographical 



Connecticut. . . . 



Eurasian 



Caribbean 



Mississippi .... 



Labrador 



Columbia 



Athabasca .... 

 *Sa5katchewan. 

 Nova Scotia . . . 

 Mendocino .... 



Aleutian 



Sitkan 



Ontario 



Scientific 



General 



species 



continent 



temperature 



arid 



plateau 



climate 



fauna 



flora 



latitude 



boreal 



physiography 



tropic 



babitat 



vegetation 



traveled 



inhospitable 



agriculture 



goddess 



scientific 



territory 



transcontinental 



parallel 



distribution 



congenial 



similar 



separate 



Birds and 

 Plants 



tanager 



saxfrage 



gentian 



ptarmigan 



musk-ox 



lemming 



caribou 



reindeer 



wolverine 



coney 



marten 



cereal 



walrus 



*Saskatcliewan is sometimes spelled Saskatchawan. Which form is correct? 



Name j'our authority 

 A. H. W. ' 



FROM YOUNG OBSERVERS 



Bird Notes from the Minnesota State Training School for Boys 



Last Mslj, while watching some Tennessee Warblers that were picking 

 worms from under the curled up lea^-es of a snowball bush across the drive- 

 way, we were startled by a bird dashing against the -^indow^-pane and then 

 either dropping to the ground or flying away. We wondered w'hat could ha\-e 

 been the cause of his reckless flight, but were more interested just then in 

 the Tennessee Warblers than in the bird that had met with disaster. 



On turning again to the bush to watch the Warblers, we noticed a female 

 Baltimore Oriole which was calling in a low, sweet voice from the snow-ball 

 bush, a sort of a crooning call, never heard from an Oriole until now, and at 

 first we did not realize that it was the Oriole calhng. Remembering the bird 

 that struck the window-pane, we stepped out-of-doors, and there, beneath 

 the 'window, was the male Oriole, dead. 



One beautiful day in June, w^e noticed a little performance which proved 

 that the Kingbird is either a tyrant as his name {Tyrannus tyrannus) impHes. 

 or else he is mischieA"Ous and likes to tease. 



We were seated on one of the steps leading down to a stretch of sand along 

 the banks of the Mississippi River. Just at the foot of the flight of stairs is an 

 old scrub oak, and close beside this a basswood tree. 



At the end of one of the branches of the scrub oak was a clump of foUage 

 and a network of small branches that made an ideal spot for a nest. A Cedar 

 Waxwing had e\-idently seen the advantages of the location for ends of twine 

 I were hanging from the branches, and, as we looked, a Waxwing appeared in 

 sight and seized one end of the string. Just then a Ringbird swooped down 

 from some ele\'ation back of us, and the W^axwdng, in a dignified manner, 

 retreated to the dense foliage lower down the tree, and remained there. The 



