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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
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ady black eyes. , Thus the Bushytail family lived inluxury throughout the long winterproving the wisdom of the couple inmoving! into town. What has becomeof the young Bushytails now that springis here is a question which puzzles me;for though the parents are whiskingabout as usual, the youngsters are notto be seen. I have a suspicion thatthey have gone courting, perhaps to theland of their forefathers, like Jacob ofold, and I shall be on the lookout forbridal pairs all summer. Alice Crittenden Derby. MORNING. Streams of light illume the east. Heralding the sun;And twinkling stars in thousands In giving place to one. fade The dew drops pendant on the leaves In myriads untold.Pay to the sun in generous wealth Their silver for his gold. The rosy morn adds greater charmsTo natures verdant bowers, Illumes the sky with golden glow,And decks the trembline flowers. The air is full of scents and songsFrom birds and blossoms gay. And everything with joy combinesTo usher in the day. -George Gee.
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47 INDIC.O lUiNTlNC. (Passerina cyaiioa). About I.ifc-size. COPYRIGHT 1900, BY A. W. MUMFORD, CHICAGO J THE INDIGO BUNTING OR INDIGO-BIRD. (Passerina cyanea.) Throughout the United States, eastof Kansas and from New Brunswickand southern Canada southward, thehome of the Indigo-bird is amongthe bushes of the wayside, in clear-ings, in briar patches and along theborders of thickets. It is in such placesthat we must seek this bright littlebird and it is not hard to find. Hewill identify himself both by color andsong, but she, a plain and demure brownbird skulking through the bushes, needsan introduction. The novice can hard-ly believe that she is the mate of thebeautiful bird which, dressed in a brightindigo plumage, sings a blithesome mel-ody from a conspicuous perch on thetree top. Though theTndigos belong tothe sparrow family, she seems muchmore sparrow-like than does her mate.Examine her plumage closely, however,and it will be found that her back isunstreaked and that, as a rule, she

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