Wednesday, January 9, 2013

Birds - Illustrated by Color Photography --- from 1897

I came across this at Project Gutenberg, a source for free ebooks.


The preface describes the reasons for publishing the monthly magazine. (Click on images to enlarge them.)


I found the section on the northern cardinal interesting - cage bird?




The black-capped chickadee ranged wet to "Indian Territory." It was recognized for its value to farmers: "One Chickadee in one day would destroy 5,550 eggs, and in the twenty-five days in which the canker-worm moths run or crawl up the trees 138,750 eggs." 





Follow this link and take a look at some of the other birds 

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