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Title: Birds and nature in natural colors.
Year: 1913 (1910s)
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Subjects: Birds
Publisher: Chicago : A.W. Mumford, Publisher
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
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for Cuba and Bermuda. This little Rail possesses most of the common traits of the three precedingspecies, but adds to them an even greater reluctance to take to wing, and is on thisaccount little known. It is said to frequent upland meadows as well as reedyswamps, but such is its fleetness of foot and ingenuity in threading the wildernessof bristling grass stems that even here it takes a clever dog to raise it. Probablythe only efficient method by which to study this bird is to learn its call notes andso entice it to the edge of some secluded swamjj opening. It is said to be quitepugnacious, and to respond readily to the supposed challenge of another bird.Mr. Nuttall speaks of their abrupt and cackling cry, krek-krek, krek, krek, kuk,kkh,*^ and likens it to the sound of a croaking tree frog. Dr. Howard E. Jones has attained a special facility in the study of the YellowRail, and the reports of his success indicate that the bird ought to be found notuncommonly throughout the state. 658
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The Warblers By Helen M. Bacon Said to be*the most numerous, the most beautiful, and the least knownof our song-birds. 1/ Dont you hear them coming, coming,With gay wings softly humming?Up from the vasts of far-oft Brazil,From lake and forest and jungle still;Winging their way across gulf and sea,With flight so swift and sure and free;With pauses short for hungers call,On, on, to far Northland, hastening all. Myriads, flashing blue, yellow, or red.Gay spots on wing or on tail or on head;Dainty black bill and bright beady eye.Flitting and glancing as onward they hie.Smaller than sparrow—more beautiful far—Brilliantly spotted with streak or with bar,Delicate structure of legs and of feetTucked into breast while the wings are so fleet. An army of weaklings, yet now they defyGreat stretches of sea and of land, tho they die.Their goal—a soft nest in a far Northern tree.With home-keeping ties and loves jubilee,As tireless they speed oer sea and oer land.Oh! pause to consider this brav

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