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Identifier: birdsnature111902chic (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
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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atlywoven and usually constructed of finestrips of bark, pine needles and twigs.They are lined with fine roots, barkfibers, hair and feathers. In Coloradoit is known to breed on the mountainsides at an altitude of nine or ten thou-sand feet. The habits of this little warbler arewell portrayed by Mrs. Whitman: The little bird upon the hillside lonely,Flits noiselessly along from spray to spray. THE SING-AWAY BIRD. Have you ever heard of the sing-away bird,That sings where the run-away river Runs down with its rills from the bald-headed hillsThat stand in the sunshine and shiver?Oh, sing, sing away, sing away! How the pines and the birches are stirred By the trill of the sing-away bird ! And beneath the glad sun, every glad-hearted oneSets the world to the tune of its gladness; The swift rivers sing it, the wild breezes wing it,Till earth loses thought of her sadness.Oh, sing, sing away, sing away! Oh, sing, happy soul, to joys giver— Sing on, by Times run-away river. Lucy Larcom, 158
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lOM COL. CHI, ACAD, SCIENCES, AUDUBONS WARBLER. (Dendroica auduboni.) Vo Life-size. COPYBISHT 1902, BY MUMFOHD, CHICA60. SPRING NOTES FROM FEATHERED THROATS. IN NEW JERSEY. That individual unaffected by the firstfluttering wings of returning spring mi-grants is an anomaly indeed. He mustever have been secluded beyond reach oftrill or glint of the feathery kingdom,or else is pitifully invulnerable to one ofnatures chiefest charms. For who, hav-ing listened to the enraptured love-notesand witnessed the extravagant devotion,intermingled with drollest buffoonery,during the progress of some field or for-est courtship, is beyond feeling interestand pleasure in these half-human andwholly unique performances? Or wholias not felt a thrill of admiration, to befollowed by one of commiiseration, whenone of the hunters of the air made histerrific plunge, hurtling down like an ani-mated catapult, to strike his quarry ere itfound cover in wood or thicket? To allthose having formed some degree of bir

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