Identifier: picturesofbirdli00lodg (find matches)
Title: Pictures of bird life : on woodland meadow, mountain and marsh
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Lodge, R. B
Subjects: Birds -- Pictorial works
Publisher: London : S. H. Bousfield
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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Nest of Blackbird (Tiirdiis jiicnila). enlivened by a diversity of feathered life, and gracefulforms and joyous sounds greet us on every side. A suburban parish, only partly outside the I^ondonpostal district, and on the fringe of a dense population,is not the most likely neighbourhood for observing thelife habits of wild birds, and yet it is siuprising what anumber of species are to be met with as more or less Bird Life in a Suburban Parish 47 re_i>ul;ir \isit<)is at one season or the other, witliout takinginto account those accidental occurrences which liappenfrom time to time. For such an event as the pickino-up of an exhausted IVtrel or other pehigic s))ecies in aninlaiui locahty seems to me to l)e cpiite devoid of anymore than a passing interest, and to have no ornitliologicalimj)ortance Avliatever. The particular county in whicli thestorm-ch-i\en wanderer happened to fall has no real claimto consider it as an inhabitant, although our l?ritish andcounty lists of species

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