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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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, however, before confidencereturns and these social birds will againbe feeding upon the ground or they mayunite in singing a sunny, pleasing war-ble. The Pink-sided Jco passes the sum-mer season in the Rocky Mountainregion of Idaho and Montana, where itmakes a home among the pines. It hasbeen found at an elevation of nearly tenthousand feet. Mr. Davie describes anest that was found at an elevation ofeight thousand feet. He says this nestwas under a shelving stone, in a littlehollow dug out by the parents. It wasrather large and compactly built, com-posed of coarse, dry grasses and with aninner lining of fine yellow straw andhair of the mountain sheep. It is saidthat this Junco, when sitting, is verytame and will seldom make a greaterdemonstration than to utter a quiet noteof complaint. At the approach of winter, these birdsretreat before the icy storms of themountains and the snows that cover thesource of their food to the milder cli-mate of Arizona, New Mexico andNorthern Mexico. .w
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FROM COL. CHI. ACAD, SCIENCES. 545 PINK-SIDED JUNCO. (JuTico annectens). Life-size. COPYHIGHT 1903. BV A, W. MUMFOflO, CHICAfiO. t THE THREE ONES. Dr. Miller is very fond of pets and inhis office he has three that he calls TheThree Ones. They are Polly, the par-rot ; Dickie, a canary, and Tootsey, ahandsome tiger cat. The Three Ones- are the best offriends and afford a great deal of amuse-ment to the people that call at the Doc-tors office. Polly is a great talker and is the mostinteresting of the three. She knows thenames of the canary and the cat and car-ries on quite a one-sided conversationwith them. Polly and Dickie are going to Bris-tol to-day is a favorite remark of Pol-lys. She enjoys hearing Dickie sing andwill say, Dickie, sing for Polly. If thebird does not sing she will say, BadDickie; naughty boy, and put her headunder her wing and go to sleep. Itmakes her very angry if. anyone talksor makes a noise when he is singing.Stop! Hark! she cries, until the noiseceases. She trie

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