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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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ith a doubleflavor—that of watermelon and straw-berry. Alice, said Edith, Ive been search-ing the botanical dictionary and I cantfind a curious fruit for your tea table un-less you will accept one that is called theQueen of Fruits, but Ill tell you nowthat it smells like onions—yes, likerotted onions—but the taste is delicious.A writer says that to taste durians is tohave a new sensation. Let us have durians, then, by allmeans, said Alice. We will not bringthem on until the last thing, and we willset the table out of doors. You have enough variety now forone supper, said Aunt Jane, so we willconclude our ideal bill of fare of curiousfruit with a reference to our commonfruits, which are, after all, the best forus. Professor Asa Gray says in thestrawberry we eat the receptacle or endof the flower stalk; in the raspberry acluster of stone fruits like cherries on asmall scale; and in the blackberry both ajuicy receptacle and a cluster* of stonefruits covering it. Belle Paxson Drury.
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THE SNOWY HERON. ( A rdea candidiss ima.) The fatal gift of beauty.—Byron. In every landI saw, wherever light illuminethBeauty and anguish walking hand in handThe downward slope to death. —Tennyson. Perhaps no class in literature, how-ever bright and eager and alert, couldcomment quite so feelingly concerningthese quotations as could our White Her-ons if they only had a voice in the discus-sion; for true as these expressions havebeen concerning human history, theyhave been still truer in the history ofbird-life, and true as they have been ofbird-life in general, they have been stillmore pathetically true of these unfortu-nate birds. The smaller of our two species ofegret, the Snowy Heron, is not a well-known bird in the northern parts of ourcountry, for he is one of the more tropi-cal members of the family, and his usualrange is from southern Indiana to Ar-gentine Republic and Chili. Occasionalstragglers do sometimes venture as farnorth as Nova Scotia and Minnesota, butthe most no

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