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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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to his peculiar calls he possessesa variety of loud, ringing whistles some-what similar in tone to those of the tuft-ed titmouse or cardinal and fully as loud,if not louder, than the notes of the lat-ter. It is difficult to state .its preference inregard to its choice of nesting sites, forit will select any place that suits its fancy.The hollow of a tree or a stump, a thick-ly branching shrub or a secluded nook insome unfrequented outhouse, perhapswith a knothole for a doorway—all theseplaces are equally suitable and some oneof them will meet the taste of this posi-tive little bird. The materials used in the constructionof the bulky nests are any fibrous sub-stance, sticks, leaves, fine grasses and infact trash of any kind. The lining of theball-like nest, which has a side entrance,is made of finer fibers, hair and grasses.In this cozy home are laid from four tosix creamy white eggs which are vari-ously marked with reddish brown andlilac, in a wreath or cluster at the largerend. 158
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FROM COL. CMl. ACAD. SCIENCEfl. 443 CAROLINA WREN. (Thryothorus ludovicianus. About Life-size. THANKSGIVING BY THE NINNESCAH. It was Thanksgiving Day in Kansas.The sun still shone warm over the yellowcornfields and the brown prairies, thothere was a hint of frost in the air, andthe nearly bare trees stood as ominoustokens of the coming winter. The au-tumn wind blew a perfect gale from thesouthwest. Down in the valley by theriver the sand was flying in stingingclouds, jerking the few remaining yellowleaves from the cottonwoods, ruffling thewaters of the Ninnescah, beating thepurple veil from the hedges where theautumn sun had tangled it, bending thelong reeds, and drifting in little moundsbeneath the wild-plum bushes. On the uplands where the curly buffalo-grass spread its thick brown carpet, thewhitened heads of the golden-rods bentbefore the wind, the sage-grass waved itslong yellow stalks, and the sunflowersrattled their bare stems and brown headstogether. Behind the shelter of one

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