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Identifier: alabamabirddaybo1913alab (find matches)
Title: Alabama bird day book
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Alabama. Dept. of Game and Fish Alabama. Dept. of Conservation
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: Montgomery, Ala. : Dept. of Game and Fish
Contributing Library: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library

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lambs, and Pandean daughters Tending folds of fleecy flocks.Flowering wild-woods sing with song-birds Madly carrolling mating lays;Browsing kine and Orphean cow-herds Dream through calm, Arcadian days.Oer the breeze-blown, fragrant clover, In the soft, sweet-scented sod,Breathe the breath of joys Jehovah Flaunting plumes of goldenrod;Oh, to be a Royal rover On those happy hills of God! Wanton winds and gales of gladness, Mountain, meadow, glade, and glen—All break forth in merry madness, Singing to the sons of men.Sylvan dells, and forest choirs Chanting litanies of love;Gothic-groined, primeval spires, Bowered in the blue above.Sunset flame, and night stars shining; Brains that burn and breasts that throb.Loves sweet heaven half divining— Self means Soul; and Beauty, God.Lonely hearts that ache with longing, Heavy hearts that toil and plod,Watch ye for Lifes Daybreak, dawning Through Deaths mist and Vale of fog;Sing, ye Angels, Mighty Morning!— Sunrise gilds those hills of God.
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c .2 .2 M > ^ 3 ^ Wei o Alabama, ipi3. 43 THE LOGGERHEAD SHRIKE. THE Great Northern Shrike, or Butcher-Bird, is a bird of verystriking personality. In appearance he is a high-headed, well-dressed dandy. In disposition, he is today a fierce little bird of prey,feeding solely upon flesh good; but tomorrow he will change into amodest insect-eater. It seems very odd to find a bird of preyamong the Perching-Birds. The Butcher-Bird is a bird of the North, breeding from Labra-dor to Alaska and visiting the United States only in winter, whenit is almost impossible to obtain food at home. The species whichwe find in the United States in summer is the Loggerhead Shrike,which closely resembles its northern relative, both in form andhabits. In the field, you can easily recognize a Shrike by its bluish-gray back, and large head. His strong, hooked beak has a notch,or tooth, near the end of the upper mandible. He is deliberate anddignified in movements, and like the true sportsman that he is, he

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