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Identifier: alabamabirddaybo1918alab (find matches)
Title: Alabama bird day book
Year: 1918 (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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hese flocks increasein size, and the writer has on several occasions watched the birdscoming to their roosts in the evening in astonishing numbers, esti-mated at 100,000. They seem to prefer a grove, near a humanhabitation, for their nightly rendezvous. They create no littlecomment in the neighborhood because of their numbers, and by theircontinuous chatter and fluttering, particularly during the early partof the night. There is usually little prejudice against them, but notinfrequently the people in the neighborhood make excuse that thebirds are a nuisance and proceed to shoot into the flocks when theycome to roost.—Wm. Butcher. m IN MAY -♦©♦■ IN MAY the Irish air is sweetWith odor from the hawthorn spray.And birds each other blithely greet In May. Night holds but momentary sway;Then vanishes with flying feetBefore the swift approach of Day. Stags bellow, and the proud rams bleat,The shining salmon leaps in play;While happy lovers often meet In May.—Norreys Jephson 0Conor.
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^ iiBninf CHIMNEY SWIFT.% Life-size. OOPVRIQNT 1900, a» ». W. MUMFORD, OHICAQO Alabama, 1918. 31 » HO FOR THE ROAD AND THE DAYS OF JUNE ■♦^♦■ OVER the hills and through the plainThe road, like a ribbon of dusty gray,Winds past fields of budding grain And meadows sweet with unmown hay;Like children singing at their playTo the tilt and laugh of a vagrant rune.These bands of roving gipsies stray—Ho for the road and the days of June! The meadowlark, with soft refrain, Sings in the clover the livelong day,And the robin-lover chants again His unforgotten hymn of May; Against the turquoise sky a sprayOf appleblossoms shines at noon. Breathing scent too sweet to stay—Ho for the road and the days of June! The rover builds his castles in Spain For none may tell the dreamer nay.Through shadow, sun, or summer rain His heart still beats to the gipsy lay. Oh, Prince of Poverty, show us the wayTo find and follow the magic tune; Give us the charm and teach us to sayHo for the road and

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