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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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cause it hadgone out of fashion. As Kewi was acripple, we could not determine by hisgreater activity whether we had doneright or not by giving him a masculinename, but Miss Butterfly and Miss Goldproved to be correctly named. In a shorttime the female moths had laid three orfour hundred eggs apiece, and then AuntJane carried all the moths, both the liv-ing and the dead, downstairs and gavethem to the turkeys—except O Clo, whohad gotten out of the room and wasfound sliding gracefully down the stairrailing. We rescued her, but, as sheseemed to have no jaws for eating, shesoon died a natural death, and we hur-ried her beside the lamented Hokusai,and this concludes the history of OurJapanese Pets. You made cornucopias for, and treat-ed the lazy worms enough sight betterthan you did the lazy boy, cried How-ard from his ambush in the tree-top, ashe bent down the limb and sprangthrough the open window into the midstof The Cocoon Firm. There was a shriek of surprise. Belle Paxson Drury. 176
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89 LONC; BILLED MARSH WREN. (Cistothorus palustris). Nearly Lifo-size. COPYRIGHT 1900, BY A. W. MUMFORO, CHICAOO THE LONG-BILLED MARSH WREN, (Cistothorus pahistris.) From the reeds would spring,Whirring, the meadow-wren, and start and stareAnd sputter, lighting from their bending tops,As if mdignant and no less amazedThat I should thus, with causeless and ill-timedApproach, upon the privacy intrudeAnd urgent duties of her precious life. —George Hill, Ramblings in Autumn. One of the most noticeable and char-acteristic birds of swampy or marshyplaces is the Long-billed Marsh Wren.It is seen at its best if the reed-borderedshore be approached in a boat fromthe water side. As we push our boatamong the reeds the better to study thislittle feathered acrobat, we are greetedby his harsh alarm notes as he scoldsus for intruding upon his private do-main. And now, as we push farther in,we hear all about us the harsh notesof alarm, with now and then a few clear,cheerful little notes from the wr

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