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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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an Aprilor later than July. In northern Illinois, Ihave found full sets between May eight-eenth and July twentieth. The eggs showremarkable variation in size and shape.The smallest I have ever seen, averagedone and fifty hundredths inches long byone and fifteen hundredths inches in di-ameter. The largest eggs were two andthirty-five hundredths inches long by oneand fifty hundredths inches in diameter.In color some specimens have a bluishgray background and are spotted withshades of red and lilac. These bear aresemblance to eggs of the king rail. An-other type partakes of the shades foundon a mud-hens egg; they are ratherfinely spotted with dark brown, on aclay-colored background. But the hand-somest variety of Gallinules eggs aredistinctly different from either of theabove. They possess a highly polishedsurface, with a reddish or light brownbackground, upon which are displayedlarge and bold spots of umber, brownand lilac, chiefly about the larger halfof the egg. Gerard Alan Abbott. 26
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AN INDUSTRIOUS LITTLE HOUSEKEEPER. About a year ago, at the beginning of home. By and by she yields to his per- the warm season, I took the childen out suasions and with him enters the port. to the country to spend a day. We had Here he guides her to a certain spot, a good time tramping through the woods and then leaves her, while he guards his all the morning, and at noon we sat down frontier. In a little while the visitor beside a small, brackish stream to eat takes her departure, and the episode is our lunch. The boys had cut long sticks repeated with other fish. Some are driv- from the willow trees, and with these en away savagely, but the little knight they threshed the water all the time we is so polite to the ladies that he always were eating. treats them with the greatest respect. It was soon observed that they were We were very curious to visit the causing a great deal of excitement for place to which these visitors were invited, a little fish we had not noticed before, so we

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