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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 Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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his breast first to one side, then to theother, as though to escape, but there ishis gentle wooer ever pressing her suitbefore him. Frequently he takes flightto another part of the pool, all to nopurpose. If with affected indifferencehe tries to feed she swims along side byside, almost touching him, and at in-tervals rises on wing above him and,poised a foot or two over his back,m.akes a half dozen quick, sharp wing-strokes, producing a series of sharp,whistling noises in rapid succession. Inthe course of time it is said that waterwill wear the hardest rock, and it iscertain that time and importunity havetheir full effect upon the male of thisPhalarope, and soon all are comfortablymarried, while mater familias no longerneeds to use her seductive ways andcharming blandishments to draw his no-tice. Then after the four dark and heavilymarked eggs are laid the captive maleis introduced to new duties, and spendshalf his time on the eggs, while the fe-male keeps about the pool close by. 110
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These birds, which possess such These are a few of the facts in the dainty elegance in all their motions, do life history of this bird, which starts in not exhibit a corresponding degree of its career as a little ball of buff and taste in home building. Their nests, at brown and later in life glides hither best, consist of only a few blades of and thither on the water, apparently grass and fragments of moss laid loose- drifted by its fancy, and skims about the ly together. Often the eggs are laid pool like an autumn leaf wafted before in some convenient hollow, with no bed- the playful zephyrs on some embosomed ding whatever except that which hap- lakelet in the forest.pened to lodge there. OUR LITTLE MARTYRS. Do we care, you and I,For the songbirds winging by ?Ruffled throat and bosoms sheen.Thrill of wing, of gold or green,Sapphire, crimson—gorgeous dyeLost or found across the sky,Midst the glory of the air.Birds who tenderer colors wear?What to us the free birds song.Breath of pa

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