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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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imal world, but thereis a chain of common experience all theway through, binding us together. Let us remember through all the yearto come, that there is no life without trialand privation, without hope and blessing,without cause for thanksgiving. Let ussympathize more with one another, thinkless of our own trials, and look oftenerat the bright spots that come into ourlives. *The Thanksgiving Assembly for theyear Nineteen Hundred and One is nowadjourned. Mary McCrae Culter. Wildly round our woodland quarters, Sad-voiced Autumn grieves;Thickly down these swelling waters Float his fallen leaves.Through the tall and naked timber, Column-like and old,Gleam the sunsets of November, From their skies of gold. Oer us, to the southland heading, Screams the gray wild-goose;On the night frost sounds the treading Of the brindled moose.Noiselesscreeping, while were sleeping, Frost his task-work plies;Soon, his icy bridges heaping, Shall our log-piles rise. —John Greenleaf Whittier, The Lumberman,
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THE BLACK-POLL WARBLER. (Dendroica striata.) Warbler, why speed thy southern flight? Ah, why,Thou, too, whose song first told us of the spring,Whither away? —Edmund Clarence Stedman. Few birds have a wider and more ex-tended range than the Black-poll War-bler. Wintering in the southern UnitedStates, Central America and the northernpart of South America, they move north-ward in the spring, reaching Greenlandand Alaska in June. Their range ex-tends to the westward as far as the RockyMountains. Their breeding range isnearly confined to the regions north ofthe United States. This little bird which travels so exten-sively is a little later than many of thewarblers in arriving at its summer home,but it seems to waste little time on thejourney, as it flies rapidly and stops butlittle to search for food. These wordsof the poet, And warblers, full of life and song— ; All moving swiftly on their way,truthfully illustrate the flight of theBlack-poll in its spring migration. This species exhi

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