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 98 Bird- Lore

What Bird is This?

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NOTE.— Each number of BIRD-LURE will contain a photograph. from specimens in the American Museum of Natural History, of some comparatively littlevknown bird, or bird in obscure plumage. the name of which will be withheld until the succeeding number of the magavine: it being believed that this method of arousing the student's curiosin 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

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I7. 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 species 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?

2L How many times has the Horned Lark been known to feed its young in an hour?