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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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harp cry now and then as if overflow-ing with curiosity to know the meaningof such proceedings. My mind soondrifted away from the bird, but was sud-denly brought back when it alighted onmy shoulder. By turning the head veryslowly so as not to frighten him, I couldlook into his bright little eyes while helooked wonderingly into mine. Oneword, designed to call the attention ofthe pickers, so frightened him that heflew, screaming, away. It might not beflattering to ones vanity, but I shouldreally like to know just what he thoughtwhile looking so sharply into the eyes ofthe monster. We may be foolish to spend so muchtime in watching the birds and talkingto them as if they could understand; butthere is something in it that makes lifemore enjoyable—really better worth liv-ing. And, after all, isnt it the wisestcourse to get out of life as much harm-less pleasure as we can? If so, there isno better place than the country and nobetter way than by communing with thebirds. Egbert T. Bush. .10
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THE MALLARD DUCK. (Anas boschas.) Few of the ducks and, in fact, fewother birds are more beautiful than theMallard as it swims easily and with wellpoised head in the waters of our streamsand lakes. Mr. Langille has welldescribed the beauty of its plumage.He says: The rich glossy-green of theneck of the male, his yellow bill and legs,the rich vinous-brown of his breast, andthe gray of his under parts, the purewhite tail of gracefully-pointed feathers,ornamented by the recurved upper tailcoverts of glossy-green or purple, aresimply resplendent in the bright morningsun, so intensified by the reflection fromthe pure sparkling sheet of snow. Hisbeauty is greatly enhanced when he isnear his plainer mate. Her plumage isbrownish dusky above, the feathers hav-ing pale ochre colored edges. Beneath,the plumage is also of a pale ochre colorwith dusky colored centers on the feath-ers. Its bill is dark olive-greenish incolor except along the edges, where it ismore yellow. The Mallard is quite a cos

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