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Identifier: birdsnature161904chic (find matches)
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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atives cling to the shore, but hegoes far into the wooded swamps. The Woodcocks aerial dance and songis one of the events of the year, andthough it is pretty well known about bynaturalists, it is surprising to observehow few people have ever observed it.It was, after all, a particularly fine strokeof Emersons when he mentioned as oneof the rare treats that come to the forestseer, that He heard the Woodcocksevening hymn. Too many of our natur-alists, it is to be feared, have been contentwith the daytime, and have unwiselyhanded over the gloaming to the peoplewho go two-by-two, and so missed someof the finest that happen out of doors—the Woodcocks wooing, and the ways ofthe little people of the dusk; the flutterof owl and bat; the sailing of the flying-squirrel and scamper of the wee woodmice. Perhaps no other of our birds take suchespecial care of their young as the Wood-cock, which, clasping the young betweenits feet, rises and flies with it to the feed-ing-grounds. H. Walton Clark.
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