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Title: Birds and nature in natural colors : being a scientific and popular treatise on four hundred birds of the United States and Canada
Year: 1913 (1910s)
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Subjects: Birds -- North America
Publisher: Chicago : A.W. Mumford, Publisher
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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inging slowly.Holy oh, holy, holy;Again at evening hush, now near, now far—Oh, tell me, are thou voice of bird or star?Sounding sweetly, sounding slowly,Holy; oh, holy, holy. The Rinjg Necked Pheasant (Phasianus torquatus) By I. N. Mitchell Length: 30 or more inches of which 16 is tail. Range: China, introduced in Oregon and several other states. Like the domestic fowl, which it closely resembles in its internal structureand its habits, the pheasant is an omnivorous feeder; grain, herbage, roots, berriesand other small fruits, insects, acorns, beech mast, are alike acceptable to it.Naumann gives the following detailed description of its dietary on the continent:Its food consists of grain, seeds, fruits and berries, with green herbs, insects,and worms, varying with the time of year. Ants, and particularly their larvae, area favorite food, the latter forming the chief support of the young. It also eatsmany green weeds, the tender shoots of grass, cabbage, young clover, wild cress, 312
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pimpernel, young peas, etc., etc. Of berries: the wild mezereum, wild straw-berries, currants, elderberries, blackberries, mistletoe and hawthorn. The successful introduction of this splendid game bird really marks a newera in the history of sport, and its advent should be hailed with delight by alltrue sportsmen. Quick on the wing, prolific, hardy, sapid, this handsomepheasant is admirably adapted to take the place of those larger native birds, thewild turkey, the prairie chicken, the ruffed grouse, which are no longer availableto us. The ethics of the situation is perfectly clear. When this country was ahowling wilderness it was right and proper that the pioneers should help them-selves freely to the abundant game to satisfy their wants and to gratify theirdesire for sport. That they went too far in some instances is clear to us as itv^^as not to them. It is perhaps inevitable that some of the larger species of birds,unconfined, should have succumbed, as did the deer and the bear am

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