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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
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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stood, the flames were yet-far off; he would venture his life yetonce more. His eye quickly mxade aninventory of the room, and it fell uponthe clams. He was a member of theBoard of Education, and knew the valueof the training of Zoology. With amighty effort he lifted the big jar full ofwater into his sheltering arms, and boreit safely down the ladder leaning againstthe burning walls. The clams saved, andcould yet serve the cause of science.Kindly hands bore them across the streetto cooler quarters. A few more days and the famousclams took a sleigh ride, a novel expe-rience even in their exciting career, andthen they were established in new quar-ters. The aquarium was house-cleaned,and they settled down again to winterquarters. Apparently the rude awaken-ing is now a forgotten dream. Neitherthe terrors of the past nor the tragic endin store for laboratory specimens can dis-turb their equanimity. True to the tra-ditions of their family, they are justhappy as clams. Ruth Marshall. I 1 I
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GREAT IIDKNKD OWL. (Hiilx) \ irKiniamisl.^ I.i COPYROHT 1«00, BY A. W. MUMFOBD, CHICAGO THE GREAT HORNED OWL. (Bubo vir^htianus.) A horned owl on silent wings, From out a cavernous place,Speeds, like a bolt of darkness hurled Athwart the shining spaceAbove the vale from wood to wood, And leaves no trace behind,—Like some dark fancy flung across A pure and peaceful mind! —Maurice Thompson, At Night. . The heavily timbered regions of east-ern North America from Mexico north-ward, are frequented by the GreatHorned Owl. In these forests, exceptingin the most northern portion of its range,it builds its nest and rears its young in anold hollow tree or in a deserted hawksor crows nest. It prefers those forestswhich contain old trees and which havebeen undisturbed by the axe of the wood-man. It becomes attached to the localityof its choice, and will make the districtits home for years. It has, however,been driven from many localities, whereit was once well known, by the felling ofthe tre

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