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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
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g about, loudly ex-claimed his disapproval. A chippingsparrow joined him. Then a woodthrush whose nest I knew was close by,for I had already seen it, with his usualdignity came to a nearby tree. Last butnot least (as he plainly expressed) camea bronzed grackle who, with a discord-ant cry, dashed into the tree to the con-sternation of all the rest. The malerobin at once attacked him, but thegrackle with a cackle of disdain wouldnot budge. Thereupon the robin drewback and discussed the situation with hisdespairing mate. The grackle then flewto the tree from which the wood thrushhad been quietly viewing all. Hescreamed in despair as the notoriousnest-robber approached the pricelessbrood; but lacking the innate courageof his more powerful cousin, dared notbar the way. Suddenly the whole group seemed tobecome aware of my presence. Thegrackle was the first to go and the restdisappeared in a twinkling—save thewood thrush and robins, whose excite-ment gradually subsided. Norman O. Foerster.
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THE GOLDEN EAGLE. (Aquila chrysceos.) High soars a patriarchal oak, Its umbrage scath M by lightning stroke, Upon whose topmost bough doth chvell An Eagle, monarch of the dell. Oerlooking from his eyrie grand The wide expanse of forest land; Now rising high in air to sweep In circling rings the upper deep, Now poisd and balancd in mid-space, As resting from his airy chase; Now sweeping downward on its way, As pirate bark swoops en its prey. —Isaac McLellan, KuiBed Grouse. Either in the coloring of their pkim-age, their form, their graceful flight, orin some of their habits, all birds are at-tractive. But with Pliny we may say,Of all the birds with which v/e are ac-quainted, the Eagle is looked upon asthe most noble, and the mout remarkablefor its strength. Pliny also says thatit was Caius Marius that assigned theEagle exclusively to the Roman le-gions. He also tells us that it washeld by the Romans to be the only birdthat was never killed by lightning, andfor this reason it was pron

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