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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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in the air, moving in short curvesup,. up, singing for a few moments asit sailed with expanded wings beforeeach flitting curve upward, till it be-came a mere speck in the zenith, andfinally I could scarcely tell whether Isaw it or not. But I still heard thesong, one that never can be mistaken,so unlike is it to that of any otherbird. Finally the bird started to de-scend and Mr. Langille says: Down,down it comes, meteor-like, with wingsalmost closed, until one fears it willdash out its life on the earth. Butno, it alights in safety, and steps alongwith all its wonted stateliness. The nests of the Horned Larks arebuilt in a depression in the surface ofthe ground which is copiously linedwith fine grasses, moss and feathers.Sometimes the nesting is begun whilethe snow is still upon the ground nearthe chosen nesting site. Instanceshave also been reported in which afterthe eggs had been laid, snow had fallento such an extent that the faithfulsitting bird was nearly or quite cov-ered. no pr
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lb «^-^....:*^ From col. F. M. Woodruff.94 HORNED LARK. (Otocoris alpestris.)4-5 Life-size. Copyrighted 1900, byA. W. Mumford, Chicago. BIRDS OF LYNN GROVE. Upon an elevation conspicuous for aradius of twenty miles and known asone of the highest points in Illinois,stands Lynn Grove,—one of Naturesbeauty spots. A hundred acresof heavynatural timber so entirely foreign to itsimmediate surroundings of black roll-ing prairie land, is an unusual sight.Indeed we who dwell near this beautifulgrove feel that Nature in a most lavishmood overstepped her natural laws inthe creation of this jewel of the prair-ies. It stands alone in its majesty, havingneither forest nor stream connectionwith the neighboring timber-belts whichstretch away in long blue lines, fivemiles distant on either side. We findno streams of water gurgHng and mur-muring through its forest aisles andlooking upon so noble a gathering ofgiant trees we wonder at its conception. Great sycamores and shell-barksabound along the st

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