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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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journey to theNorthland and were delightful visitors,with their whistling warble and brightfox-colored backs and tails. The part-ridges helped themselves to the buds onour apple-trees right in sight of ourwindows, and not many feet away fromthe barn. The small birds would oncein a while drop into the barn floor andpick up the oats lying loose. What thecrows live on has been a source of won-derment for years. Is it frozen apples,or. berries and seeds? They manage tofind rations without our help and it ispleasant to hear even the caw of a crowon a blustering winter day. I tried an experiment and set my tablein April to see if I could entice any birdafter the ground was brown and bare.And sure enough, the chickadees anddowny were glad enough to see the fareset forth and for several days came toavail themselves of the offered dainty. Whoever desires entertainment for asmall effort, let him feed our winterbirds and thus save some wee lives andfind pleasure and amusement. Lucie A. Peabody.
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THE BLACK GROUSE. ( Tetrao tetrix,) The Black Grouse belongs to a groupof birds called Black Game. It isa native of both Europe and Asia andis not uncommon in some portions of theBritish Islands, especially on the heath-areas. The two sexes are very appro-priately named. The male because ofits general black plumage is called theBlackcock, and the female, whose plu-mage is brownish in color, is called theGrey Hen. The Black Grouse inhabitsthe sides of hills, lonely heaths, and thebanks of marshes, but not too near hu-man habitations. These birds are notuncommon in the vicinity of pine andbirch forests bordering moorland, wherebilberry, cranberry, heath and brackenflourish, though they may sometimes beseen on the open moor. They love anyuncultivated and desolate tract which iswell covered with a growth of shrubsand coarse herbage. A region of whichMary Howitt has written: Oh ! beautiful those wastes of heathStretching for miles to Inre the bee. The Black Grouse are polygamous,each male

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