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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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s usually placed low down inan evergreen of some sort, and here arelaid from three to five creamy-white,speckled eggs. During the birds stay with us it isconstantly busy, darting out from itsperch after insects, so that it leaves itsblessing on the woods through which ithas passed. After the brood is reared inthe north, they return, sometimes spend-ing as much as a month with us duringSeptember, on their journey southward.On their autumn visit, however, they aremuch duller colored than during thespring migration, and would hardly berecognized by one who became ac-quainted with them on their bridal tourthe spring before. This exquisite warbler has quite anextensive range covering North Amer-ica east of the base of the Rocky Moun-tains. It is occasionally seen as far westas British Columbia. Its breeding rangeextends from northern New England,New York, and Michigan, northward tothe Hudson Bay region, and it also ex-tends southward in the AUeghanies intoPennsylvania. H. Walton Clark. 204
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158 MAGNOLIA WARBLER (Dendroica maculosa). Life-size. COPYRIGHT 1900, BY A W. MUMFORD, CHICAGO BLUEBIRD JOTTINGS Comes vernal sun and gentle rain, To nurse the flowers to life again; Comes bluer sky and swelling bud; Come secret whisprings of field and wood; While, flowing from out its rust-bro\\Ti throat, Comes, sweetest of all, the bluebirds note. Blue for beau-u-ty (beauty), blue for from kitchen windows. The Bluebirds beaUU-ty. were not long in finding it but had It was a sweet and mellow note that a struggle with the English sparrows greeted the ear, and we scanned the fence before securing possession, for those posts and the branches of neighboring intolerable pests are so numerous and trees in the hope of catching a glimpse of impertinent that they quickly seek to the blue herald of the loitering spring- appropriate to their own use any niche or tide. crevice wherein a nest may be placed. Blue for beau-u-ty, blue for beau-u-ty. After our blue friends had obtained pos- In spite

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