The Wilson Bulletin, Količine 24–27

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Wilson Ornithological Society, 1917

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Stran 122 - DRAMA, and that the following is, to the best of his knowledge and belief, a true statement of the ownership, management (and if a daily paper, the circulation), etc., of the aforesaid publication for the date shown in the above caption, required by the Act...
Stran 120 - ... (Pr. Bost. Soc., xv, 1872, p. 233)." Paul Bartsch, in an article on "Birds Extinct in Iowa and Those Becoming So" (Iowa Orn., n, 1895, PP- 2-3), states that the Paroquet formally ranged as far north as Spirit Lake, where it would frequently remain until the cold snow would drive it southward. Its food in winter consisted chiefly of the seeds of the cocklebur. Its nature was so peculiar that when one of the number was killed or wounded, the others would gather around it with shrill cries and in...
Stran 118 - Any person over the age of twenty-one years,' reads the law, 'who is a holder of a valid hunting and trapping license, may, and it shall be the duty of a game protector or other peace officer, to humanely destroy a cat at large found hunting or killing any bird protected by law or with a dead bird of any species protected by law in its possession; and no action for damages shall be maintained for such killing.
Stran 104 - Cabanis. 339- (731)- Balophus bicolor (Linn.). Tufted Titmouse. The Tufted Titmouse is a rather rare resident in southern Iowa, seldom reaching the northern part of the state, although it has been occasionally taken in the extreme southern counties of Minnesota. County records: Blackhawk — " Have seen persons who have collected them occasionally in the vicinity of Cedar Falls, Iowa" (Hatch, Birds of Minn., 1892, p.
Stran 36 - In the absence of the president and vice-president, the meeting was called to order by the secretary, and Chief Hoagland of Lincoln was elected president pro tern.
Stran 134 - No. 6 shot each. One of them died in nine days and the other was able to throw off the poison. The list of species known to have been poisoned by eating shot consists of mallard, pintail, and canvas-back ducks, the whistling swan, and the marbled godwit, but many other species, particularly of ducks and...
Stran 120 - XI.l 37 [Nov. 14, 1906.] far as the northern part of the state, but has not been observed in the state for at least thirty years and has practically been exterminated throughout the United States. Frank M. Chapman gives four reasons for its disappearance: "First, it was destructive to fruit orchards, and for this reason was killed by agriculturists ; second, it has been trapped and bagged in enormous numbers by professional bird-catchers ; third, it has...
Stran 22 - Ethnology, and those of The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, the American Museum of Natural History, and other institutions, which include numerous contributions to physical anthropology.
Stran 50 - A few steps into the thick matted rushes and again the birds arose on hurried wing beats almost directly upwards and drifted with much croaking farther down the island. A few steps more and I was in the midst of a nesting colony of these birds; every few yards a nest directly on the depressed rushes where a high tide had beaten down the tops of the tall rank growth. A hurried estimate of the number of these birds made approximately 500 individuals, but whether both sexes were in the marsh I could...

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