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Identifier: storiesaboutbird00kirb (find matches)
Title: Stories about birds of land and water
Year: 1874 (1870s)
Authors: Kirby, Mary, 1817-1893 Kirby, Elizabeth, 1823-1873
Subjects: Birds -- Juvenile literature
Publisher: Hartford (Conn.) : American Publishing Co.
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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vVs^ S^^_^-3 THE WILLOW ITARMIGAX. but in the spring her costume changes, and the feathers have a mixture ofblack and yellow, with white tips. In Norway the ptarmigan is taken insnares that are set in the snow. A forked twig of birch is stuck into the snow,so as to make a kind of arch. A noose made of hair is fixed to the twig S.YARIiYG PTARMIGANS. between the forks, and the traps are set very near together, just in the waywhere the ptarmigans come running along, for they very seldom fly. Theyrun into the snares by as many as forty or hfty at a time.
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THE rXARMIGAN IN WINTER PLUMAGE. Sometimes the hair noose is found round the neck of the bird when itcomes to the London market. One peasant will set as many as a thousand of these snares. r^ 204 STOJilES ABOUT BIRDS. THE QUAIL. When the children of Israel were wandering in the wilderness, and were fedby manna from heaven, they murmured for flesh to eat; and we arc told thatquails were sent in such quantities that feathered fowls were like the sandsof the sea. So they did eat, and were well filled : for He gave them theirown desire. There has been a great deal written by learned men about this miraculousflight of quails, and to what species they belonged. And it is interestingto know that the bird in the picture is thought to be of the very samefamily. It is the only species of quail that ever takes long journeys, or fliesin large flocks. And old writers tell many stories of the vast quantities ofquails that were sometimes seen flying from place to place. Indeed, one ofthese writers d

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