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Title: Children's own library
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Burdick, J. Ellis (Jennie Ellis) Welsh, Charles, 1850-1914
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Publisher: New York, National Library Co
Contributing Library: Information and Library Science Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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tance. Like many other little creatures, the Humming-birdis remarkable for its assurance and impudence. It iseasily tamed for that very reason, and has been known todomesticate itself in an hour from the time of its cap-ture, and even when released it has returned again topartake of the dainties which it had tasted during itscaptivity. There are an immense number of species of theseexquisite birds, varying from the size of a swift to thatof a humble-bee. The nests are very neat and beautiful, and as may beimagined from the diminutive size of the little archi-tect exceedingly small. They are composed of down,cotton, etc., and are sometimes covered on the outsidewith mosses and lichens. The Wren. The American House Wren is largerthan the European Wren, being about five inches long.It is of a reddish-brown color, and is a good fighter,and will attack bluebirds and swallows. The nest ofthe Wren is built in any convenient cranny ; an ivy-covered tree, the thatch of a barn, or a warm scare-
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MA o woods natural history 131 crow are all used by this fearless little bird. The nestis usually of an oval shape, always covered on the out-side with some material resembling the color of theobjects round it, such as green moss if built amongivy, or brown lichen if built on a rock or in the fork ofa withered branch. The eggs are six or eight in num-ber — white, speckled with reddish-brown. Lyre Bird, a name applied to two birds of Australia,from the lyre-shaped outline of the erect tail-feathersof the male. The Nightingale, so famous for its singing, is of aquiet brown color, and is a little larger than the spar-row. It is found in Europe and Asia, but does not gofar north. It usually begins to sing in the evening,and continues its song all through the night. Theinimitable song of this Mendelssohn among birds loses agreat part of its beauty when uttered by day, deadenedand confused with other sounds. The Warblers are spread over almost the entireglobe, and many gladden this countr

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