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Title: Birds and nature
Year: 1900 (1900s)
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Subjects: Birds Natural history
Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : A.W. Mumford, Publisher
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d grasses and other litterof the previous years growth, often ina tangle of shrubs, ferns and bushes.The nest is sometimes sunk flush withthe surface, and is composed of grasses,mosses, pine needles, strips of bark andleaves, lined with finer material of thesame sort and with hair-like rootlets,the composition varying with the local-ity. The eggs are pure white orcreamy-white, marked with spots anddots of reddish-brown and the usuallilac shell-markings, which are groupedmore or less around the larger end.They are four or five in number, andaverage about .61 x .48 of an inch. The spring males may readily be rec-ognized in the bush by their small size,by the bright yellow underparts, bytheir ashy heads and back, and by theirhabit of feeding in the middle branchesof the trees down to the underbrush.The concealed rufous spot on the crown,from which the bird takes its scientificspecific name, can rarely be seen in thelive bird, no doubt chiefly because thebird is perpetually above you. 170
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FROM COL, CHI. ACAD. SCIENCES. NASHVILLE WARBLER.Life-size. CHIEF SIMON POKAGON. C. C. MARBLE. Gather him to his grave again,And solemnly and softly lay Beneath the verdure of the plain, The warriors scattered bones away. —Bryant. THE subject of this brief sketchdied, January —, 1899, at anadvanced age. He was a full-blood Indian, and a hereditarychief of the Pottowattomies. As au-thor of The Red Mans Greeting,a booklet made of white birch barkand entitled by the late Prof. Swing,■The Red Mans Book of Lamenta-tions, he has been called the Red-skin poet, bard, and Longfellow of hisrace. He himself said that his ob-ject in having the book printed on thebark of the white birch tree was out ofloyalty to his people, and gratitude tothe Great Spirit, who in his wisdomprovided for our use for untold gener-ations this remarkable tree with mani-fold bark used by us instead of paper,being of greater value to us as it couldnot be injured by sun or water.Out of the bark of this wonderful tr

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