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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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elm tree in theDepartment of Ardeche in France, whichwas planted on the grave of a noblemanin the year 1202. This would make thatelm the oldest living representative ofour family. My family history is finished, fairmaid; soon we will be bare and leaflessand toss our gaunt arms to the unpityingwinter skies. Our leaf buds are warmand snug; we are fully prepared for whatcomes. In the warm spring days whichwill follow you must come to me and Iwill toss some of my tiny blossoms atyour feet. Until then, fair maid, good-bye, and a perfect shower of yellowleaves fell around Mabel as she turned awav. Evelyn Singer. THE GRACKLES, Again they come, jet black and purple crowned,In darting throngs to flit among the pines; Again they fly the gilded steeple round, When twilight glows and gleams in scarlet lines. And tho their dress is dark and soml^rc hucd,And even tho their cries are out of tune. We love them still, for in our April moodThey promise that the May will follow soon. —JAC Lowell. 152
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THE CANADA JAY. (Perisoreiis canadensis.) With mingled sound of horns and bells, A far-heard clang, the wild geese fly,Storm-sent, from Arctic moors and fells. Like a great arrow through the sky,Two dusky lines converged in one.Chasing the Southward-flying sun;While the brave snow-bird and the hardy JayCall to them from the pines, as if to bid them stay. John Greenleaf Whittier, The Last Walk in Autumn. Audacious, extremely bold, fearless,cunning, destructive, greedy, amusing,and a thief, are all terms which may beapplied to the Canada Jay. It is so wellknown to the campers throughout itsrange and so various are its habits thatit has been given a number of commonnames. It is known as Whisky Jack orWhisky John, names which sound likeits Indian name Wiss-ka-chon or Wis-ka-tjon and are corruptions of it. Someof its other names are Meat Bird, Veni-son Hawk, Grease Bird, )\Ioose Bird andCaribou Bird. It has no more appro-priate name, however, than that of CampRobber, a name by which it is

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