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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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ingbefore me and retrace my steps. Hereare a group of sparrows jumping aboutin the dim interior of a button bushswamp, six trees and one whitethroat. No doubt the latter is only astray, lost from his herd and waitinghere among strangers for something toturn up. With all their snow and ice the winterforests have their attractions, none theless alluring because they must besought out clad in overcoat and mittens.It is the more serious side of bird lifethat one sees at this time of the year;there are no teasing antics, no playfulraces, none of the ornamental gracesand the side-lights of the mating season.When spring comes these hills and val-leys will be alive with warblers, vireos,tanagers and the other brilliantly col-ored birds of the Upper Mississippi Val-ley region, but none of them with all hisbeauty of plumage and sprightliness ofmanner can quite enlist our sympathiesor gain our respect as do these sturdyfellows tl:^t brave the rigors and perilsof the winter. James S. Compton. 101
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.1. I. M. Wo,M)rM(l. ( i.KlJI.I.AN WAKBLllK. (I )ciKliica c.trulea.) 7-8 J<ife-si/e. A. W . MmiiU.r.l, i. laviyo. THE CERULEAN WARBLER. (Dendroica carulea.) Of the many diminutive featheredsongsters that spend the summer monthsin the northern part of the UnitedStates, the Cerulean or Blue Warbler isone of the most beautiful and striking.The male is resplendent in his azure-blue back and pure white breast, hissides streaked with bluish black and hiswings wath two white bars. The female,like all of the warblers is less conspicu-ous, as becomes the one which is to per-form the important duty of incubatingthe tiny eggs. Her coat is more or lesssubdued to a greenish gloss and thewhite becomes yellowish. The Cerulean Warbler enjoys a widerange, being found from Bolivia northto New York, Ontario and Minnesota,and west to Nebraska. The breedingrange is from West Virginia, Tennesseeand Missouri, northward. Curiouslyenough it is very rare east of the Alle-ghany moimtains. The nest is

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