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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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s. Nobody ever woke. But we woke one morning in a thickfog, with the Boston boat shouting itsway out past us, and water standing inthe dimples in our blankets enough towash our faces very passably if we hadhad no better chance. When the sunbroke through, some one faced it andstruck up: When the sun gloriously—and the rest, like so many troop-horses,bounded and stood in choir-order andwent on: —comes forth from the ocean,Making earth glorious, chasing shadows away,Then do we offer Thee our prayer of devotion:God of the fatherless, guide us, guard us to-day.The other verse we sometimes sangat sunset, undaunted in our heyday bvits melancholy tone, and then we piled abig fire of the fragrant red cedar to lightour supper table and our evening.Pretty silver-mounted trinkets cut fromthe rich heart of this thenceforth pre-cious wood, and polished on the spot, arestill in being, ready, as our camp-laureate had it, To sing in praise Of summer days In camp at Normans Woe. —Helen Mansfield.
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THE ALICES THRUSH. ( Tardus aliciae.) Alices Thrush, or the Gray-cheekedThrush, has an extensive range coveringthe whole of North America from theAtlantic coast westward to the Plainsand northward to the regions beyond theArctic Circle and is abundant along theArctic Coast. Mr. Ridgway says: Thisbird and the robin are the only speciesof our thrushes that cross the ArcticCircle to any distance, or reach theshores of the Arctic Ocean. It occursfrom Labrador all around the AmericanCoast to the Alutian Islands. It alsofrequents Siberia. From its breedinggrounds in northern North America, onthe approach of winter, it migratessouthward to Central America, andfinally reaches Costa Rica. Alices Thrush closely resembles theolive-backed thrush with which it is fre-quently associated during its migrations.When thus associated, only the trainedeye of an expert can discriminate be-tween them. The two may be distin-guished, however, by the much strong-er buff coloring on the throat and breast,and o

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