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Title: Birds and nature
Year: 1900 (1900s)
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Subjects: Birds Natural history
Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : A.W. Mumford, Publisher
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ng above one ofthese blue earth strata, and heavyrains, or probably an earthquake, setit moving. The quantity of earth car-ried down was so great that the posi-tions of the trees on the portion car-ried away were little affected. It ishardly to be believed that the earthsuddenly sank down at this point andbecame a portion of the beautiful lake. Few such places exist. There is aplace in the famous Tumwater Canon,on the line of the Great Northern, nearLeavenworth, which is in some re-spects similar. At some early time aportion of the great mountain sidecame rushing down and buried itselfat the bottom of the canon. Nowthere is a considerable lake, and in thecenter stand tall, limbless trees, differ-ent in species from those growing alongthe canon. At Green Lake, near Georgetown,Colo.—a lake which is io,ooo feetabove sea level—is a submerged forestof pine trees, some hundred feet tall,but not so numerous as in Lake Sama-mish. This same theory explains theirpresence as given above. 200
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CHICAGO COLORTYPE CO FROM COL- CHI, 330 RKD-BREASTED NUTHATCH.% Life-size. RED-BREASTED NUTHATCH. (Sitia canadensis.) BY LYNDS JONES. IT IS doubtful if any bird has beenmore persistently overlooked ormore universally confounded witha closely allied species than thesubject of this sketch. His superficialresemblances to the white-breasced nut-hatch, either in color or voice, are notstriking, certainly not so much so aswith other species which are not soconfused, yet it is certainly true that buta small proportion of the laity areaware that there are two nuthatchesroaming the woods, the one a migrantin the Middle and Southern States, theother resident wherever it is found.What, then, are the marked differencesbetween them? The red-breast is de-cidedly smaller than his cousm, hisbreast is tinged with red or brown in-stead of the immaculate white, andthere is a black line running throughthe eye to the back of the head, sepa-rating the white line above it from thewhite throat; the cry is a

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