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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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le. How unique that would be. I thinkI hear mothers footsteps. Yes, hereshe is. Well, Mabel, were back; we weremuch longer than I expected for thestores were filled. Have you beenlonely? No, mother, dear, Ive been listeningto the Holly talk, and mother, I can un-derstand now what was meant whensometime ago you quoted these words.Trees have voices of different tones,and quick, trained ears know these tonesthough it is only the hearing heart thatcan understand what the trees say. Yes, Mabel, and Ive been told thatthose who make a study of trees, notonly know these tones, but their earsare so attuned to the hidden voices ofNature that, in passing through a woodat night, they can tell under what kindof tree they are standing by the whisper-ing of the leaves. Truly, Mabel, thisworld of ours is both beautiful and won-derful. It is indeed, mother; how much so, I never fully realized until I carried with me the ears of imagination. Good night, Holly, and a Merry Christmas. Evelyn Singer. »io
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THE AMERICAN FLAMINGO. (Phosnicopterus ruber.) When Nature produced the Flamingoshe evidently tried to make a compositebird, which would be suggestive of al-most all the rest of the water birds andthe wading birds. With long legs anda long neck like a crane, webbed feetlike a goose, and a lamellated bill likea shoveller duck, this beautiful bird iscertainly unique among avian creatures.Its bill is very peculiar, being bent on theback and peculiarly flattened. Whenfeeding, the Flamingo appears to liter-ally stand on its head. There are six species of Flamingoesknown, two being species living in theold world and four in the new. One ofthe best known of the latter is the sub-ject of this sketch. The American Flamingo rangesfrom Southern Florida and the Bahamasto Brazil and the Galapagos Islands. Al-though a very abundant bird in itsbreeding range, the Flamingo was untilrecently quite unknown in its domesticlife. Various authors have argued proand con in regard to its alleged habitof stra

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