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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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f the body and tail, they re-peatedly utter sharp, loud but somewhattwittering notes and snap their mandi-bles together as if in the act of catchinginsects. Their food of insects is usuallycaught whileon the wing, but they willalso, at times, pick up insects whilestanding on the ground. The male as-sists his mate in the incubation of theeggs, which lasts through a period ofabout twelve days. Major Bendire be-lieved that two broods were occasionallyraised in a season. He says: On June6 I found a nest of the Vermilion Fly-catcher in a small grove of cottonwoodtrees, with no other shrubbery nearerthan six hundred yards; it was placedon a horizontal fork of one of thesetrees, about twenty feet from theground, and contained three fresh eggs;close by, the male was feeding a full-grown young bird; no other pair ap-peared to occupy this grove, and itseemed very probable that it belonged tothese birds. The fact that I also foundfresh eggs as late as July i6 furtherstrengthens this supposition.
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From col. Geo. F. Breninger.109 VERMILLION FLYCATCHER. (Pyrocephaliis riibineus iiiexicanus.)3-5 Life-size. Copyrighted 1900, byA. W. Mumford, Cliicago. AMONG THE TREES. THE ASH. In one portion of the large lawn,grew a fine specimen of an Ash tree;its wide canopy offering a refreshingshade on those hot days in mid-Julywhen to breathe seemed an effort.Rustic chairs stood beneath its shelter;there, too, swung a hammock whosestrong and graceful meshes supportedin indolent ease the forms of those whotook advantage of its unspoken invita-tion to rest. On one of those glorious days ingolden October when the crickets chirpall day, when the orioles with their bril-liant plumage; when the bluebirds, whocarry a portion of the heavens on theirbacks, have flown to the far, sweet southand only a few belated robins remind usof the days when our woods and lawnswere filled with the music of the feath-ered choiristers—on one of those daysso filled with Natures wonderfulbeauty, Mabel sought the shade

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