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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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rhead and back are indistinctly spottedand clouded with black. She alwaysseems happy and contented and is nota mean, songster. She, too, is the builderof their home, and she is a most won-derful architect. Mr. Lowell has spokenof the brilliant male as the Wingedflame of Spring, and says that hisduty is but to love, and fly, and sing.Mr. Chapman says: There is reasonto believe that he is not unaware of hisown charms; indeed, we may almostsuspect him of intentionally displayingthem. The flashing of his plumage ashe flies through the foliage has givenhim the names Firebird, Golden Orioleand Golden, Robin. The Orioles are quite late in arrivingat their more northern summer homes,and they depart very early on their jour-ney to their winter home in CentralAmerica. Before the last of August, allof these brilliant songsters have disap-i:)cared from the northern portion oftheir range. How well the lines of )\Ir.Lowell portray the vivacious nature ofthese useful l)irds, which are contented .irt
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FROM COL, 66 F. M. WOODRUFF BALTIMORE ORIOLE. (Icterus galbula). Vi Life-size. COPYRIGHT 1900. BY A. W. MUMFORD. CHICAGO only where there is a plenty of sun-shine ! O happy life, to soar and sway Above the life by mortals led,Singing the merry months away. Master, not slave of daily bread.And, when the Autumn comes, to flee Wherever sunshine beckons thee. While the Baltimore Orioles beautifyour home environment and entrance uswith their song—music which seems tospring from a gay and joyous heart—much more can be said in their favor.While we know that these birds haveexcited the enmity of fruit-growers be-cause of their fondness for grapes andother small fruits, often injuring, ac-cording to reports, more than they needfor food, they should not be judgedtoo harshly, for they perform a work ofspecial importance to us. Mr. F. H.King, who has made a careful study ofthe economic relations of birds, says thatthe Orioles feed extensively upon leaf-rollers in the larval state. These area

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