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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 are hollow, filled withmillions of spores, finer than the finestparticles of dust. Mary Lee Van Hook. A FAITHFUL KENTUCKY CARDINAL In Unity, Kentucky, near the home ofRobert Butler, a Kentucky Cardinal andhis mate began housekeeping in a honey-suckle. All went well with the happypair, until one day a snake crept intothe nest and devoured the mother birdand nestlings. The unhappy husband,forlorn in his grief, spied a red tasselhanging from a curtain pole in the win-dow of Mr. Butlers home. This tasselresembled the female red bird in sizeand shape. With increasing devotion the beautiful but unhappy husband madedozens of trips a day to this window, go-ing through all the motions of feedingthe imprisoned mate. After tapping uponthe window-pane with his bill for sometime, he dropped the morsel upon thesill where a heap of food already col-lected by the bird could always be foundand flew away after another choice bit.The devotion of the bird was extremelypathetic. Fannie A. Carothers. 164
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FROM COL. CHI. ACAD. SCIENCES 146 AMERICAN THREE-TOED WOODPECKER. (Picoides americanus). fa I.ifc-size. COPYRIGHT 1100, BY A. W. MUMFOHO, CHICAGO THE AMERICAN THREE-TOED WOODPECKER (Picoides ainericaiiiis.) The range of the American Three-toed Woodpecker, which is also calledthe Banded Three-toed Woodpecker,covers northern North America from thenorthern portion of the United States,northward to the Arctic regions. Withinthe United States, with a very few ex-ceptions, it has been observed only eastof the Rocky Mountains, and it is muchrarer in the western than in the easternportion of this part of its range. Whileit has been known to breed, but only insmall numbers in Maine, the White^Mountains in New Hampshire, and inthe Adirondack Mountains in NewYork, it is principally only a winter visi-tant within our borders. It has beenthe experience of nearly all observerswho hav^e been able to study the habitsof this Woodpecker that they are usuallysolitary, excepting during the breedingseason

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