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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
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Institution Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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ke great pride in the numberof birds they can attract about them bythis and other kindly means. The lit-tle yellow houses seem to delight thebirds so much that one is seldom put upin vain, and the tenants pay lavishly withcoins of song and many a trill of joy.Lee McCrae. THE LIGHT OF THE LEAVES, Hurry, skurry through the airLeaves are falling everywhere.Gold and crimson meet or missSmile or blush at the frost kings kiss. Whirling, twirling, oer the ground,Forced by merry winds around;Piled by childish hands on high.There, like martyred saints, to die. Crackle crackle, sound their knells,Imprisoned sunshine in them dwellsLike liny tongues, twixt earth and skyThey whisper love to passers by. Falling, ever falling^, they.Consumed to make the world more gay;The misty cloud of smoke oerheadSeems like the veil Shakiiia spread. Down and down comes memorys leaf.Bright with hopes or sere with grief;The brightest one in lifes huge pileIs that from which our bonfires smile. -Cora May Cratty, 152
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FROM COL. CHI. ACAD. SCIENCES 522 STARLING. Stiirnus vulgaris). -(: Liife-siz?. THE STARLING, (St urn US vulgaris.) The Starling belongs to an interestingfamily of birds, represented in Americaby but one species and that one only re-cently introduced. In the Old World,however, there are about two hundredspecies which are widely distributedthroughout Europe, Asia and Africa. The common Starling is a native ofEurope and northern Asia and is ad-mitted to the bird fauna of North Amer-ica both because of its accidental occur-ence in Greenland and of its introduc-tion into the parks of New York city.Regarding its introduction into thiscountry, Mr. Chapman says that it hasbeen brought across the ocean on sev-eral occasions, but only in the case of thelast importation was the effort to makeit establish a home within our borders asuccess. The birds included in this lot,about sixty in number, were released inCentral Park, New York city, in 1890.They seem to have left the park and tohave establi

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