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Identifier: birdsnature521899chic (find matches)
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 Libraries
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cameupon a series of unusually greatthoughts and carried the congregationinto the heights of sacred felicity theyacknowledged the di\inity of the oc-casion by humming him through thenose. Much of their singing also wasgiven an unction otherwise impossibleto it by their peculiar nasal attitudewhile worshiping by use of the psalms. While the nose is a most prominentfeature of the countenance and thebeauty of the face depends largelyupon that members appearance, theres no one who can say just what shapethe nose should have to be most beau-tiful. Socrates proved his nose to behandsomer than that of Alcibiades be-cause it was better adapted to use. Asthe nose is used for smelling and theeye for seeing, Socrates maintained thatthe handsome eyes and nose of thepolished young Greek were less usefuland less adapted to the purposes forwhich such organs exist, and thereforethe bulging eyes and violently turned-up nose of the philosopher were heldto be more beautiful than those of Al-cibiades. 68
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FROM COL CHI. ACAD. SCIENCES. WHITE IBIS.• 10 Life-size. CHICAGO COLORTYPE CO., THE WHITE IBIS. (Guara alba.) LYNDS JONES. THE white ibis might well serveas the text of a symposiumupon the evils of plume-huntingto supply the constant demand of themillinery trade. Suffice it to say herethat this species, in common with manyother members of its family, and manyother birds as well, has decreased tothe point of almost complete extermi-nation within the last fifteen years fromthis cause alone. Surely it must betrue that the living bird in its naturalenvironment is far more pleasing to theaesthetic sense than the few featherswhich are retained and put to an un-natural use. As lately as 1880 the white ibis wasdecidedly numerous in the variousrookeries of the southern states, wan-dering as far north as the Ohio river,and touching southern Indiana andsouthern Illinois. Two were seen asfar north as southern South Dakota.They are now scarcely common evenin the most favored localities in Louisi

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