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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
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Institution Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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as it constantly jerks its tail whileit flutters about the hedges and scat-tered shrubbery, or when running on theground among the weeds of old fields.It may even frequent dusty roadsides.Wherever it is, it frequently utters itslow tsip, a note that is very similar tothat of many of its sister warblers. Dr. Brewer says, They have no othersong than a few simple and feeble notes,so thin and weak that they might almostbe mistaken for the sound made by thecommon grasshopper. The Palm Warblers nest is a trimstructure, usually placed upon theground and never far above it. Thewalls consist of interwoven dry grasses,stems of the smaller herbaceous plants,bark fibres and various mosses. It islined with very fine grasses, vegetabledown and feathers. Though this homeis placed in quite open places, a retiredspot is usually selected. Here are laidthe white or JDufTy white eggs, more orless distinctly marked with a brownishcolor, and a family of four or five of thesepeculiar Warblers is raised. 50
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FROM COL. CHI. ACAD. SCIENCES. i05 PALM WARBLER. (Dendroica palmarum). Life-size. 00PYfll6HT 1902, BY A. W. MUHFOflO, CHICAGO. OLD-FASHIONED OUTINGS. PART II. While in our camp on the shore ofGloucester harbor, many were our ad-ventures first and last, some of our ownchoosing, some not. In the mouth ofRafes Chasm is a big oblong seamedrock, considerably lower than either wallat that point, with perpendicular sidesand top slanting to the lower wall, whichis the west, and the natural approach.At low tide the boys made a point ofleaping the western channel and climb-ing up across the narrower eastern one,and where the boys went, the youngergirls expected to follow. (How was it,I wonder, that girls began to be tom-boys just then? They have kept it upever since, but it is no longer a matterof reproach.) The first girl who didthis held the championship for sometime, but the smaller ones qualified inthe end. We were there one day at halftide when a good deal of surf was run-ning, so we estab

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