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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 Institution Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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trees, lined with the finefibers of roots. From three to fiveeggs are deposited, and are hatchedin about twelve days. They have agreenish background, thickly spottedwith light brown, giving the wholeQgg a brownish appearance. The Brown Thrush leaves the East-ern and Middle States, on his migra-tion South, late in September, remain-ing until the following May. THE THRUSHES NEST. Within a thick and spreading hawthorn bush That overhung a molehill, large and round,I heard from morn to morn a merry thrush Sing hymns of rapture while I drank the sound,With j oy—and oft an unintruding guest, I watched her secret toils from day to day ;How true she warped the moss to form her nest, And modeled it within with wood and clay.And by and by, with heath-bells gilt with dew. There lay her shining eggs as bright as flowers,Ink-spotted over, shells of green and blue : And there I witnessed, in the summer hours.A brood of natures minstrels chirp and fly. Glad as the sunshine and the laughing sky.50
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.^m.nM UMFORD, CHICAGO 228 (ij Lile-bize. THE WHITE IBIS. (Guara alba.) I.YNDS JONKS. THE white ibis might well serve asthe text of a symposium uponthe evils of plume-hunting tosupply the constant demand ofthe millinery trade. Suffice it to sayhere that this species, in common withmany other members of its family, andmany other birds as well, has decreasedto the point of almost complete extermi-nation within the last fifteen years fromthis cause alone. Surely it must be truethat the living bird in its natural environ-ment is far more pleasing to the aestheticsense than the few feathers which are re-tained and put to an unnatural use. As lately as 1880 the white ibis was de-cide(;ly numerous in the various rookeriesof the southern states, wandering as farnorth as the Ohio river, and touchingsouthern Indiana and southern Illinois.Two were seen as far north as southernSouth Dakota. They are now scarcelycommon even in the most favored lo-calities in Louisiana and Texas, beingconfined to t

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