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Title: Bird lore
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: National Committee of the Audubon Societies of America National Association of Audubon Societies for the Protection of Wild Birds and Animals National Audubon Society
Subjects: Birds Birds Ornithology
Publisher: New York City : Macmillan Co.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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ung birdsis very short, for, like the Bob-White and the Grouse, they soon leave theopen nest for the safer shelter of the dry leaves and grass. Before we againhad a chance to return to it, the nest had probably long been empty. To a Chimney Swift By DORA READ GOODALE Uncumbered neighbor of our race ! Thou only of thy clanHast made thy haunt and dwelling-place Within the walls of man. Thy haughty wing, which rides the storm,Hath stooped to Earths desires, And round thy eery rises warmThe smoke of human fires. Still didst thou come from lands afar In childhood days as now,—Yet alien as the planets are, And elfin-strange art thou. Thy little realm of quick delights, Fierce instincts, untaught powers — What unimagined days and nightsCut off that realm from ours ! Thy soul is of the dawn of Earth, And thine the secrets beOf sentient beings-far-off birthAnd round-eyed infancy. With thee, beneath our sheltering roof,The starry Sphinx doth dwell, Untamed, eternally aloofAnd inaccessible !
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WOOD THRUSH AND NESTPhotographed from nature by E. Van Altena SS Stray Birds at Sea By F. M. BENNETT, Lieut. Commander, U. S. N. IN January and February of the present year the writer crossed theAtlantic Ocean as a member of the naval expedition engaged in towinga large floating dry dock from Chesapeake Bay to the Philippine Islands,which employment is mentioned as a preliminary explanation of the slowprogress that is shown by the following notes. We left the capes of the Chesapeake the evening of December 29, 1905,and stood offshore on a southeast course. A number of Herring Gulls,probably about forty, had followed the ships down the bay and continuedwith us for four days at sea, the number remaining apparently undiminishedfrom day to day. The morning of the fifth day, when we were about fourhundred miles from Cape Henry, they were all gone and we saw them nomore. The eighth day out we passed within sight of Bermuda, but, to mydisappointment, no birds of either land or sea came withi

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