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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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and grand-course we all ran away from the little mothers in Africa being chased by wildbeast. animals and wild Arabs and BritishI am told this kind of thing is to sportsmen, I feel very glad that I amhappen every four months the rest of a young Ostrich, a native son of Cali-my life. That is my only sorrow, fornia, living in a christian land andotherwise I am pretty well fixed; I have living well,plenty of food to eat, nice pools of water E. H. Rydall. CALIFORNIA POPPIES Cups of gold, the Spaniard called them.As he sought for treasures old, He beheld their living splendor,At his feet, like shining gold. Cloth of gold, the field they bloom in: And the mantle Raleigh layIn his Queens path, gold-embroidered. Never equalled their array! El Dorado! El Dorado! Cries the heart as we behold,Rich with store of hidden treasure. These uplifted cups of gold! Winged minstrels of the summer. Idle vagrants of a day.—Share and welcome, foe and lover, Nature turns no guest away! —Ella F. Mosby. 128
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THE AMERICAN COOT (Fulica americana.) Some fine autumn morning, the observ-ant dweller in the neighborhood of al-most any one of the sequestered lakescommon in our North Central States, oran inhabitant of the Chesapeake Bay re-gion, looks out over the water, sees ablack speck in the distance and says ina voice of satisfaction, The Coots havecome. Morning after morning the blackspecks will be found to have increased innumbers until the shallower portions ofthe lake or bay are covered by blacksquadrons and flotillas of these birds. Aflock of them busily engaged in divingand feeding, gabbling incessantly in gar-rulous sociable tones makes one thinkrather of domesticity than of wildness;in habits of feeding indeed they remindone somewhat of a flock of tame ducks. The Coot is a welcome sight to the peo-ple about the lakes, partly for their ownsakes, because they lend an air of socia-bility and life to the scene and add vari-ety to the procession of passing days.They are greeted with pleasu

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