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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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ing to the age. Infact, the young male resembles the fe-male except that it is more brilliant incolor. The female may also have moreor less red in the color of its plumage.One shot at Wheatland, Indiana, in 1881.had the plumage more than one-halfred, the red color being of greater ex-tent, in fact, than on the male, whichwas killed by the same shot! The tintof the red is very peculiar, however, be-ing of dull Chinese orange, instead ofpure rosy vermilion, as in the male. The nest of the Summer Tanager isnot a particularly artistic structure. Itis usually shallow but quite firmly built.The walls are constructed with wirystems of grasses and weeds and linedwith finer stems and tendrils. Sometimesthe walls are so thin that the eggs may beseen through them. The nest is usuallyplaced near the extremity of a branch ofa tree near the edge of the forest, and isgenerally from eight to twenty feet abovethe ground. So frail is the nest that itis usually destroyed by the early fallwinds. HHHHIBiH
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101 SUMMER TANAGER. (Piranga rubra). V2 Life-size. COPYRIGHT 1900, BY A. W. MUMFORD, CHICAGO SOME OF THE WOODS OF THE SOUTHLAND. THE DATE-PALM. The earliest fruit of which we read isthe apple—the forbidden apple—and veryold-time lore hints that it was not theapple of our modern times, but the date-apple with which the wily serpent tempt-ed Mother Eve, who, in turn, temptedher too-willing spouse. However thismay be, we know that the Date Apple—or Date-Palm, as we moderns call it—isone of the very earliest fruits cultivated,having been grown for over four thou-sand years along the Euphrates River. The deserts and many regions in Ara-bia would not be habitable were it not forthe Date-Palm. To say nothing of thefruit itself, it is there almost the only treesuitable for use in the construction ofhouses and other necessary objects. Insome regions, it is only because of thepartial shade of these palms, which pro-tect from the burning sun and scorchingwinds, that other fruits can thri

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