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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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them incountless multitudes, till at last all, ornearly all, are secured in the pit. In the meantim-C smaller excavations aremade, answering the purpose of ovens, inwhich fires are kindled and kept up tillthe surrounding earth, for a short distance,becomes sufficiently heated, together witha flat stone, large enough to cover the oven.The grasshoppers are now taken in coarsebags and, after being thoroughly soaked insalt water for a few moments, are emptiedinto the oven and closed in. Ten or fifteenminutes suflice to roast them, when theyare taken out and eaten without furtherpreparation, and with much apparent relish,or, as is sometimes the case, reduced topowder and made into soup. And havingfrom curiosity tasted, not of the soup, butof the roast, really, if one could divesthimself of the idea of eating an insect aswe do an oyster or shrimp, without otherpreparation than simple roasting, theywould not be considered very bad eating,even b3^ more refined epicures than theDigger Indians.
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FROM COL. F. M. WOODRUFF 249 CEDAR WAXWING. & Life-size. PUBLISHED 5Y ATKINSON, MENTZER 4 GROVER, CHICAOO Birds & Nature Magazine 11 The Bird in the Tailor-Made Gown A STUDY IN POLITENESS IF we were to accuse any bird of wear-ing a tailor-made gown, it would bethis trim, dainty waxwing. Themodest, unruffled beauty of theplumage makes it a general favorite. Canyou imagine a softer or prettier combina-tion of browns? How tastefully its sobertones are picked out here and there bybrilliant bits of color! The scarlet tipsof the wing feathers, the yellow edging ofthe tail, the touch of white under the eyeand the black bar through it. Could oldPolonius, in Hamlet, have hit off betterthe dress of the waxwing than he did theattire to be preferred by his son Laertes?^^Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy;Yet, not expressed in fancy; rich, notgaudy. The conspicuous crest of the waxwing,slightly raised in the picture, togetherwith the black and white about the eye,give him an animated, w

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