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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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ybeneficial. Two-hundred twenty stom-achs showed that one and one-half percent of the food eaten was poultry orsmall birds, sixty-five per cent consistsof small rodents, while they and noxiousinsects amount to ninety per cent. Thesevaluable birds deserve and should enjoythe protection of every farmer. Perhaps in closing it may be well tosay a word about owls. Since they arenocturnal, most people know very littleabout them. Probably the most commonabout here are the barred or hoot, andscreech owls. Nearly every season abrood is raised in a certain part of ourwoods. Investigation shows that thesetwo eat very little poultry or small birds.The great horned owl destroys more, butonly a small part of its food is not injuri-ous, or is at least neutral to the farmer. Careful study and examination showsthat the farmer has a host of friends inour common birds. They do not particu-larly work to help us any more than wedo to help them. Each is involuntarilya help to the other. Warkkn Higgins. 164
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FROM COL. CHI. ACAD. SCIENCE 60 BLACK AND WHITE CREEPING WARBLER,(Mniotilta varia IAboul Life-size. I Hit,HI 1900, B1 A. W. MUMFORO CI THE BLACK AND WHITE CREEPER WARBLER. (Mniotilta varia.) After the spring migration is wellunder way and the few warblers thathave appeared in the parks are tantaliz-ing, elusive bits of color flitting fromplace to place that one has to follow andpiece together as best he may sometimes,a new Warbler arrives and advertiseshis presence in plain black and white sodistinctly that one can read it withoutrunning very hard or far. Moreover hedoes not flit restlessly from place to place,nor dart continually from his perch tocapture his prey, as do most of thewarblers, but creeps along the treetrunks, searching for insects in the bark,much after the fashion of a nuthatch. Hecan therefore be studied at leisure. Sometime after he has appeared, the femalearrives. She can be distinguished by herduller color, the dark parts of her dressbeing rather brownish than blac

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