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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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just because we told her shecouldnt, said John, in a roguish way.Now, Aunt Jane, please coax her toread them to us, wont you? Aunt Jane looked at Edith, smiled,and said: Wont you oblige us, dear?Whereupon Edith finished reading thefollowing just as the tea bell called tosupper: OUR NATIONAL FLOWER. Sir Aster stood by Goldenrod,And sought his love to tell;At first by many a pleasing nod,At length in words as well. Said he to her, in accents bold,Were made to live together;For you are clad in robes of gold,And I in purple feather. We complement each other well;It is the work of fate;Always together we should dwellIn most harmonious state. My pedigree of long agoWise science says is true;My amethystine rays, I know,Were perfected for you. Do you not know, said-Goldenrod,I am the Nations flower? Theres not my peer above the sod; Lone grandeurs now my dower, And you must find another mate.Tis sad, but we must part.Henceforth affairs of gravest stateMust occupy my heart. Belle Paxson Drury.
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THE BLACK-CROWNED NIGHT HERON. (Nycticorax nycticorax ncpvius.) The range of this interesting and pe-culiar Heron extends over the temper-ate and tropical portions of Americafrom Ontario and Manitoba, southwardto Chili and the Falkland Islands. Itbreeds northward to the limits of itsrange and winters from the Gulf Statessouthward. It is commonly called theOua-bird or the Squawk, because of itsunmusical and decidedly unpleasantnote, and its habits are not generallyknown by our northern students of bird-life. In certain localities in the GulfStates where the Night Herons nestamong the flags of large swamps, theyare more often seen and are betterknown. In other localities, especially inthe northern portion of their range, theyare very shy and retiring, nesting androosting usually in the tallest trees indense woods in swamps or near watercourses. There they are far betterknown to the duck hunter than to thecity-bred bird student. The name Nycticorax, meaning nightraven, was given to these

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