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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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pause long enough tosing her bluebird song, then alighting onmy desk, she will make a queer medleyof the pens, pencils and so forth. Sheexamines every new thing and if it doesnot please the little midgets fancy shewill charge at it with rumpled feathersand snapping bill. She has her playthings too. Tooth-picks, a gaily colored marble and a tinybell are her familiar toys. She is quitevain and will stand many minutes beforea glass admiring herself in differentposes. She is shy of strangers and willprotest loudly if we attempt to take herfrom the cage when anyone strange toher is in the room. Her cage is her home and she objectsto a change of quarters. Put her intoanother cage and she will fret contin-uously till put back to her accustomedplace. One can scarcely credit the greatintelligence in that wee bit of bird-life,but what I have written of my pet is truein every particular and Ill be happy tointroduce her to any bird-lover whowishes to make her acquaintance. Bertie M. Phillips. 232
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FROM COL. CHI. ACAD. SCIENCES 155 BLACK-NECKED STILT. (Himantopus mexicanus). Yi Life size. COPYRIGHT 1><0U. BY )HD, CHICAGO THE BLACK-NECKED STILT (Himaj^topus mexicanus.) The range of the Black-necked Stilt,an interesting bird whose habits and gen-eral appearance have caused much dis-cussion, is quite extensive. While it isfar from common in the eastern UnitedStates, its range may be given as cover-ing the whole of temperate North Amer-ica from the northern United Statessouthward to the West Indies, Brazil,and Peru. It is fairly abundant in thewestern portion of its range. It bears afew other common names, such as Law-yer, Long-shanks, and Pink-stockings. Of all the grotesque forms among ourwading birds, the Black-necked Stilts, Ithink, are the most prominent. Theirlegs are longer in proportion to the sizeof their bodies than are those of anyother birds, excepting the flamingoes. Inthe southern states, especially Louisianaand Texas, and also in southern Califor-nia, it is prob

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