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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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out a little from day to day, Ifound one morning two little downy yel-low and igray mottled l>eings, and twobroken egg shells on the stone. Tliey vflere not scrawny and feather-less, as are so many young birds, buttheir flat bodies were well coveerd withfeathers. It was a long time before I found out\\hat the baby whippoorwills were fedon. They never seemed to be hungry,and, although they came up timidly andlooked in when I held out my hand,they would neither eat the bread crumbsor cherries. But in the late afternoonthe parent birds could be found catch-ing flies as they sailed through the airclose to the ground. In September wemissed the evening call and knew that weshould not hear it again until the violetscame in the spring. Ella Ursula Hayden. I^ud and sudden and near the notes of a whippoorwill sounded Like a flute in the woods; and anon, thrnnq:h the neighboring thickets, Farther and farther away it floated and dropped into silence. —Henry Wadswortii Longfellow, Evangeline.
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(ROM COl. CHI. ACAD. SCIENCES. 548 FERRUGINOUS ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK (Archibuteo ferrugineus). About Yi Life-size. corrfliaHT if03, or a w mumfokd, CHiCAbo. THE FERRUGINOUS ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK. (Archibuteo ferrugineus.) The poise of the larger hawks as theyperch upon the bare limb of a large treeis wonderfully beautiful. Not less at-tractive is their flight as they gracefullysail in circles high in the air or moveforward by measured strokes of theirstrong wings. The graceful movementsof these birds seem all the more inter-esting now that it is known that nearlyall the hawks are a positive benefit tomankind. Especially is this, true of theone we illustrate. It is the FerruginousRough-leg of Western North America.Its range extends from the Saskatche-wan southward into Northern Mexico,and from the Pacific coast eastwardacross the Great Plains and, in the south,to Texas. This large and handsome Hawk is aninhabitant of the prairie country west ofthe Mississippi river where it finds anabundant su

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