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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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see a flock of migratingswans, then he only needs to shout: The swans and the feverFly over the wild sea.The swans come backBut the fever never more. Similar things can be told from theNorth. In Scania it is said that when apiece of cloth, belonging to a sick per-son, is laid in the nest of the stork beforehe migrates, then he will, as a rule, takethe disease along. The birds o-f passage hurry to thewarm countries; everywhere is uneasi-ness and longing; therefore, they say inGermany, that no children shall beweaned while the birds migrate, for thenthey will never have peace. While the birds nesting in Denmark. go farther south, the birds from the farNorth commence to come to spend thewinter in a milder climate. The beauti-ful bullfinch and the motley snow-birdcome with frost and snow, and some-times, some one says every seventh year,the waxwing comes in large flocks. Peo-ple are not glad to see him, for as withall rare birds, he indicates hard times,pestilence or war. Frants p. Lund.
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MANDARIN DUCK (Aix jralorita).% I.if.-si/c. COPYRIGHT 1900, BY *. W. MUMFORD, OMIOA THE MANDARIN DUCK. (Atx galerita.) The Mandarin Duck occupies inChina the same position that the woodor summer duck (Aix sponsa) does inthe United States. Woodland pondsand forest-bordered streams make aproper setting- for the grace and beautyof these richly attired birds. Whilethese words were applied by Mr. Chap-man to the wood duck, they are fully asappropriate when used in a description ofits sister species in the countries acrossthe sea. The Mandarin Duck is a nativeof China, where it is held in greatesteem, and the Chinese are not easilyinfluenced to part with them, for they arevery loth to have these birds pass intothe hands of foreigners. Dr. Bennett,who had expressed a desire for a pair ofMandarin Ducks, received a letter froma friend in China who said: I couldmore easily send you two live Man-darins than a pair of MandarinDucks. The Chinese look upon thisduck as a most striking example ofconj

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