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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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os- fickle Spring, and still rocked their buds soms slept, and every sound was hushed in slumber to the breezes lullabies. save the music of the rain and the Spring had cast a soft filmy veil over brooklets low evening hymn, the woodland, here rosy, there merging Jean M. Hutchinson. TO THE WOOD THRUSH. The breeze comes in at my window,Filled full of the breath of morn. Of hay fields wide on this summer tideOf garden and meadow and corn. A Wood Thrush atilt in the maples,Tells his joy in a cheery lay; A sweet, low voice of the woodlandGreets the coming of full orbed day. O, gentle soul of the forest,When hot the noon rays fall. You sing of the dim, cool shadows,With their peace and rest for all. When even comes and long shadows ■Fall out of the golden west, You sing of the land of our longing,Where good is transformed into best. Teach us in the glow of the morning.In the glare of bright noon day, In the dim of lengthening shadows.To brighten with music the way. -James S. Compton. 198
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FROM <.OL CHI. ACAD. 9i~IEHE8 4.\ I M \KSII I\1A\VK.(Circus luidsonius).About yi Lifc-sizf. :OPYRir,MT 1900, BY A. W. MUMFORD, CHICAGO THE MARSH HAWK, (Circus h udson itis.) The jMarsh Hawk, also known asHarrier and Mouse Hawk, is one of themost widely distributed of the Americanhawks, its range including the wholeof North America from Alaska to Pan-ama and Cuba. It breeds from the Gulfstates northw^ard. It is, perhaps, no-where so common as in the prairie re-gion of the middle west and especiallythat portion of the country formmg theMississippi Valley. In the New Eng-land states it arrives about the middleof April to the first of May; in the vi-cinity of northern Illinois it is a com-mon summer resident and a rare winterresident. Owing to the wide range of the MarshHawk, the time of nesting varies in thedifferent localities. In the Southernstates nesting begins early in April,while in Northern British America andAlaska it is early June before ^^g lay-ing begins. Unlike most hawks,

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