. Bird-lore . 1. Pine Siskin, Summer. •2. Pine Siskin, Fall. 3. Goldfinch, ad. male, Summer. 4. GoLDFiNtH, ad. female. ). OoLDFiNCH. ad. male, OoLDFiNCH, yng. male, Winter. (One-half Natural Size.) iglrli-lore A BI-MONTHLY MAGAZINE DEVOTED TO THE STUDY AND PROTECl ION OF BIRDS Official Organ of thc Audubon Societies Vol. XII July—August, 1910 No. 4. The Black-billed Cuckoo at Home By EDMUND J. SAWYER With a photograph and drawings by the author EVERY observing bird student knows what is meantby the unbirdlike species—certain not necessarilyuncommon, but hardly familiar birds
. Bird-lore . 1. Pine Siskin, Summer. •2. Pine Siskin, Fall. 3. Goldfinch, ad. male, Summer. 4. GoLDFiNtH, ad. female. ). OoLDFiNCH. ad. male, OoLDFiNCH, yng. male, Winter. (One-half Natural Size.) iglrli-lore A BI-MONTHLY MAGAZINE DEVOTED TO THE STUDY AND PROTECl ION OF BIRDS Official Organ of thc Audubon Societies Vol. XII July—August, 1910 No. 4. The Black-billed Cuckoo at Home By EDMUND J. SAWYER With a photograph and drawings by the author EVERY observing bird student knows what is meantby the unbirdlike species—certain not necessarilyuncommon, but hardly familiar birds. Some ofthem are the Woodcock, Cuckoo, Whippoorwill, Nighthawk,Chimney Swift, Hummingbird and, to some extent, theBrown Creeper and Marsh Wren. There is a strangeness^ about these birds, something by virtue of which we are^ \ \/f/^ not allowed to pass them with the mere glance we might.}\ ( bestow upon others which, it may be, we chance to know1 even less about. In some, this strangeness is slight and vague; in others, it amounts to an air of mystery which hangs aboutthe bird like a veil. Of the latter, the Cuckoo is a striking seen, a Cuckoo invites our thoughtful attention; there is alwaysthe same engrossed, preoccupied bearing, always that suggestion, to a greateror less extent, of the mystic. On June 17, 1909, at the foot of a slight, s
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