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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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ingthat the birds must have a nest, I madean exaniinalion, but found none. A short time afterward I heard thesame cries of distress from the sparrows,and went out again to investigate morethoroughly. The cat was on the groundthis time and the birds were battlingwith increased vim. Again I looked intothe bushes and was just about to pickup the cat when she sprang into a tiiickchina bush and jumped down with atiny birdling in her mouth. Let us save our darling from thiscruel fate, came in agonized cries fromthe parent birds, and lending a hand totheir frantic eftorts, I succeeded in forc-ing the cat to drop the tiny creature justas she was going underneath the house.I could feel the rapid beats of its heart,but it had not been injured by Tabbysteeth. As soon as the parent birds sawtheir birdling in my hands they flewaway. I thought it best to put the littlething up in a tree where it would awaitits parents return, and soon afterwardsI saw the happy family on a high branch. Nina King. 66
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THE SONG SPARROW. (Melospiza fasciata.) In one of his most beautiful bits ofverse, The All-Kind Mother, JamesWhitcomb Riley speaks of nature as Kindly to the weed as to Lily, lorn and teared with dew, and although this remarkable impar-tiality between the lily we admire andthe weed we despise is quite difficultfor us to understand just now, thepoet assures us if we wait patientlywe shall See the lily getIts divinest blossom, yetShall the wild weed bloom no lessWith the song-birds gleefulness. In reading this over one feels al-most certain that it was the SongSparrow the poet had in mind; for itis the picture of this bird rather thanthat of any other that is called up bythe verses, and the touch fits it soexactly. And surely no bird is more worthythe attention of the singer of sweetlycommon things, than the Song Spar-row is, for more than any of the birdsfamous in song and story. More thanskylark or swallow, more than robinor bluebird or cuckoo or thrush orany other of the feathered ho

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