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Title: Birds of lakeside and prairie
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Clark, Edward Brayton
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: Chicago, New York, A.W. Mumford
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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ugh he be a bird-lover, for seeing nothing but theever-changing color beauty of the plunging water. I didget my eyes away from that magnificent sight longenough to note that myriads of swallows were passing andrepassing through the great cloud of spray and mist that risesfrom the rocks where the falling waters strike. People ap-proaching the falls from below on the venturesome Maid ofthe Mist are compelled to wear rubber clothing to escape adrenching from the dashing spray. It is heavier in placesthan the heaviest rain, and yet through it the swallows wereconstantly darting taking a shower bath without apparentlywetting so much as a feather. Most of the birds that I sawon that late July morning were tree swallows. They con-stantly cut through the bars of the floating rainbow which insunshine is ever present at Niagara. There was no hue inthose broad color bands, more beautiful than the shining greenthat the sunlight brought out as it struck the upper feathers ofthose darting swallows.
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CHAPTER IX WHERE THE BLACK TERN BUILDS The little village of Worth lies just beyond the smoke offactory-filled Chicago. It is on the marshes of Worth thatthe black terns build their nests; it is in the thorn thicketsthat hedge the pastures that the loggerhead shrikes maketheir homes; the rails, the redwings, and the wrens haunt thereedy swamps; and the hawks and the crows live in the heavytimber. Outside of a race-track and the many birds thatflock in its fields, Worth has few attractions to offer. Therace-track draws thousands of people daily for a short season,but the birds visitors are few. In no other place, perhaps,so near the great city, could the black terns nest in peace.Certain it is that Worth is the only place readily accessible tothe city bird-student where these soft-breasted birds of thesea may be found during the season of courtship and house-keeping. Black terns are abundant in the shop windows andupon the hats of thoughtless women. The shop birds and thebonnet birds a

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