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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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oft-flecked by yellow beams,Methinks the sweetest month of all Is June, the Month of Dreams. —Frank Monroe Beverly. 46 Bird Day Book SPRING COURAGE. LORD love ye, joyful heralds trueOf springs new life, swift swallows crew,Fond doves, cuckoos, and soaring larks;Ye thrushes brown and songsters coyThat dart from bush in nesting joy To fill with life the greenwood parks! Lord love ye, Easter daisies fine,Narcissus, nodding columbine, Sweet jessamine and lilies tall,The hawthorn pale, and flowring lime;Ye anis, fragrant balm, and thyme, Right hearty welcome to ye all! Lord love ye, parti-colored seaOf butterflies, that on the lea Light flutter over heath and broom;And ye, new swarm of velvet bees,Impartial sucking honeyed fees From coral bud and amber bloom! A thousand times I hail againYour lovely, joyous, tender train! I love this pulsing season rareWhen streamlets flow with rippling purl,Remembring winters stormy swirl, When thus abroad I may not fare! —Translated by Helen F. Page.
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GOLDEN PHEASANT. H Life-size.Tail somewhat shortened. COPYRIGHT 1100, BY A. W. MUMFORD CHICAGO. Alabama, ipi3. 47 THE PHEASANT. ♦©•♦ THE Pheasant family was originally represented on this conti-nent only by the wild turkeys; but during recent years cer-tain foreign species have been successfully introduced, and arenow becoming so numerous as to require notice. The Ring-Necked Pheasant has been introduced from China,and acclimatized in Washington, Oregon, California, British Co-lumbia, and elsewhere with pronounced success. In many locali-ties it has become so abundant that now it is shot by sportsmen asupland game-birds once were killed in New York state. FromPortland, Oregon, to Vancouver the taxidermists are annuallycalled upon to mount scores of these birds, because they are sobeautiful that many of the sportsmen who shoot them cannot con-sent to see their skins destroyed. Following the examples of the Pacific states, Ohio, NewYork, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and several o

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