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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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fleis heard, followed by the excited bark-ing of a dog. Certainly there are many things of in-terest in the winter woods, and onemisses much if he fails to go out atleast a few times while the snow is onthe ground. Charles F. Fudge. THE BLACK-THROATED.GREEN WARBLER. A gorgeous butterfly with wings White-barred, a gilded robe and crown,Into the pine tree flutters down And half-asleep, half-waking sings. Voice of the calm midsummers day!As sunlit bees are droning long.It wooes the listener with its song. The tree and song a harmony Tis said the white pines soul became Incarnate in this butterfly— This little bird that knows the skyYet loves the parent bough the same. And still the impassioned spirit sees The pine trees waving, hear the soughOf wandering winds and tells us how They sang the same soft melodies. O spirit bird! thy tender breast, Crapc-nuifllcd, thrills with unsung songs, No careless heart to thee belongs,The sky forgot, thy home is best. —Nki.i.y I Taut WoonwoRTir. 232
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L THE GREEN-WINGED TEAL. (Anas carolinensis.) The dainty little Green-winged Tealis second only to the wood duck in thebeauty of plumage and w^ere it not forits small size, doubtless it would rank asthe most esteemed of all of our ducks.The delicacy of its flesh, the w^onderfulspeed it attains when on the wing, andits amiable disposition make it the primefavorite of nearly all sportsmen. I canattest to the rapidity of its flight. Manytimes wdien I have been concealed in myblind, the little bullet shaped form haspassed me so quickly that I hardly couldrealize that it was the form of a bird,and only w^hen seeing a long streak offlying spray and a splash, as the birdstruck the water w^ould I be disillus-ioned. Many times my hunting com-panion and I have looked at each otherin a shame-faced manner and each hasasked, Why did you not shoot ?^ Ourfavorite excuse would naturally be Twaited for you to shoot first. The range of this attractive Teal islarge, covering North America in gen-eral, t

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