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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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s expected and opened the gate forhim. The swallow will look around inhis home and then sit down and twit-ter: When we flew away the barns were full.But now there is nothing left.Swit, swaet, swit, swaet, it is eaten.It is gone! This verse is found in many differentforms through Denmark, Sweden, Ger-many and France. There are many things to observe inconnection with the first swallow. If aperson will blow after it, everythingwill go easy for him in the course ofthe year. If a person remains standingwhen he sees the first swallow, and digsunder his left foot and finds a smallpiece of coal, it is a sure cure for ague.In Germany and France they say thatthe person digging will find a hair ofthe same color as that ones future wifeor husband will have. The nightingale does not come untilthe thornbush is green, and then all thesummer birds are gathered together,and the short but happy life in songcommences. Each singing bird is sit-ting and singing for his enrapturedmate. Frants p. Lund. 116
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THE BOBOLINK, (DoHchonyx oryzivorus.) It is generally during the month ofApril or May that the Bobolink termi-nates his winters sojourn near thetropics and starts on his long journeyto the north and northwest, passing overregions of the southland where he is oneof the most despised of birds, except whenproperly cooked. He hurries on, travel-ing at night and feeding by day, often, itis true, pulling up the growing rice onthe way, until he reaches the regionswhere he is always sure of a cordial wel-come, and where there is no good rea-son why he should not receive a welcome,for, after passing about the fortiethdegree of north latitude, he appears tobe on his very best behavior, coming asa harbinger of spring, wearing his bestclothes and fairly overflowing with music. The males usually appear a few daysin advance of the females and when thelatter arrive courtship at once begins,the birds meeting in an open space wheregay Robert of Lincoln dances on earthand air about the one he would hav

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