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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
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botanist, he was very fond, so hechose the name Linne, which isSwedish for Linden. His son Carl wasa very precocious child, and at theearly age of four, asked his fathermany questions in botany; the father,Nils Linne, would refuse to answerif he had forgotten what had been pre-viously explained. When in afteryears Carl became Professor of Bot-any at the University of Upsala, thename was Latinized into Linnaeus, aswe know it today. The King of Spainbecame much interested in Linnaeus,and conferred upon him the patent ofnobility as Count von Linne, or Countof the Linden Tree, and made him amunificent offer if he would reside inSpain. Linnseus, however, refused,saying that his country .deserved allhe had to give. There was loyalty, said Mabel, ad-miringly, but no answer came fromthe Tree. Bees and insects buzzedabout, birds twittered in the branches,but listen as intently as she would, nosound that she could construe intowords, so rising, she slowly wendedher way homeward. Evelyn Singer.
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85 RUBV-THKOATED HUMMINGBIRD. (Trochilus coliibris). About Life-size. THE RUBY-THROATED HUMMINGBIRD. (Trochiius colubris.) Voyager on golden air, Type of all thats fleet and fair, Incarnate gem, Live diadem, , Bird-beam of the summer day,— Whither on your sunny way? —John Vance Cheney, To a Humming-bird. Regarding the Ruby-throated Hum-mingbird, Mr. Wilson has said: Na-ture, in every department of her work,seems to dehght in variety, and the pres-ent subject of our history is almost assingular for its minuteness, beauty, wantof song, and manner of feeding, as themockingbird is for unrivalled excellenceof notes, and plainness of plumage.One of the most interesting facts regard-ing these, the tiniest and most exquisiteof our birds, is that they are the onlyones of a large family (for there areabout live hundred known species ofHummingbirds) which pass through theUnited States east of the MississippiRiver, and finally on to the Fur. Coun-tries and Labrador. They may be seenas far wes

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