. Bird lore . rned Owl. VI. Red-shouldered Hawk. XII. Sparrow Hawk. XVIII. Hawk Owl. A long- tailed Hawk, too far away to make certain of, I supposedwas a Coopers, but he alighted on the ground and then I knew it mustbe a Marsh Hawk. Each species has its own habits and sounds as well as colors, thathelp in its recognition, but the most useful all-around label-marks arethose of color-pattern or uniform. A Bird of the Season BY C. WILLIAM BEEBE, Assistant Curator of Birds, New York Zoological Society Illustrated by the author ONE of the finest and rarest bird exhibits in the New York Zoologi-cal
. Bird lore . rned Owl. VI. Red-shouldered Hawk. XII. Sparrow Hawk. XVIII. Hawk Owl. A long- tailed Hawk, too far away to make certain of, I supposedwas a Coopers, but he alighted on the ground and then I knew it mustbe a Marsh Hawk. Each species has its own habits and sounds as well as colors, thathelp in its recognition, but the most useful all-around label-marks arethose of color-pattern or uniform. A Bird of the Season BY C. WILLIAM BEEBE, Assistant Curator of Birds, New York Zoological Society Illustrated by the author ONE of the finest and rarest bird exhibits in the New York Zoologi-cal Park is in the dense thicket of trees and tangled undergrowth inwhich the flock of Wild Turkeys find a perfectly congenial three hens and the pompous and iris-plumaged old gobbler are as muchat home as if in the depths of their native forests in Virginia. They aremore easily observed in winter than in summer, on account of the thickgrowth of sumach, sassafras and grape-vines which has been allowed to. r1 ic \ . .:■...T1>*^-. ^^^^^H ■^-^^ \ ^^^- ^ ^ i i^ii MALE WILD TURKEY AT THE NEW YORK ZOOLOGICAL PARK grow up in their enclosure, but any time one or more of the Turkeysmay be seen scratching among the dead leaves or roosting on some highlimb. All of the hens have nested and laid eggs, but two factors have made theraising of the young birds a matter of great difficulty, up to the of these is a liver disease which has killed a number, and for which notreatment has thus far been successful. Wet weather is the second enemyfrom which the newly-hatched chicks have suffered, the slightest wettingduring the first two or three weeks after hatching proving fatal. Last year a raccoon climbed into the inclosure and killed seventeenyoung chicks in a single night, but was captured later, and as a penalty suf-fers imprisonment for life. This year, perhaps, as a result of the knowledgeobtained from costly experience, better success has attended the efforts at (
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