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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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mhalf a chance, will teach you somethingof interest. Mr. Ford, of Berwyn, Illi-nois, has a small aquarium, in his house,in which he keeps from fifteen to twenty-six species of native fishes. Among theseare several species of Darters, the mostbeautifully colored and the most interest-ing of all our fresh-water forms. Thenthere are Minnows, Suckers, Catfishes,Sunfishes, the Pike, Mud Minnow, TopMinnow, and so on. To one who wouldknow fishes, any one of these species ismore desirable than gold fish. The studyof fishes in an aquarium, such as the onepossessed by Mr. Ford, is extremely in-teresting. They will teach you muchabout their habits, besides giving youmany lessons showing their ability tochange color and adapt themselves totheir surroundings. The BHnd Fishes, which inhabit cavesin this country, are very interesting. Theyhave lost their color, if they ever had any,being white. In many the eyes have be-come so degenerated as to be entirely ofno service when the fish is in the light.
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