Birds and nature

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Identifier: birdsnature91901chic (find matches)
Title: Birds and nature
Year: 1900 (1900s)
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Subjects: Birds Natural history
Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : A.W. Mumford, Publisher
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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made useful because intermediatesteps in their study have not been learnedIt will require long series of experimentsin some cases, but when added to thepresent usefulness of bacteriology the re-sults may be expected to satisfy the mostsevere critics, Adolph Gehrmann. THE YELLOW-BREASTED FLYCATCHER. Come here! come here! come here! My Philip dear, come here! come here!Philip, my dear! Philip, Philip, my dear! Poor mournful Mrs. Flycatcher,With ample breast of .dainty, buff, Now dont you .think youve called your mate,-To say the very least—enough? Im sorry for you, plaintive one; I would be glad to make him flyFrom his long tarrying place to you, If that would stop your weary cry. Cant you decide to give him up? All over town youve called his name;I heard you calling this week, last, The week before you called the same. Perhaps some boy with twenty-two Has shot him for his sisters hat.Go! search the churches through and through; If hes not there, accuse the cat. — Carrie B. Sanborn
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378 AO ;; II :i I •, TOWNSENDS WAR)() >endroica townsemA.boul Life size. COPYRIGHT IVA W. MUMFORO, C> THE TOWNSENDS WARBLER. (Dendroica towns end i.) Dr. Robert Ridgway, in the Ornithol-ogy of Illinois, uses the following wordsin speaking of that family of birds calledthe American Warblers (Mniotilidae),No group of birds more deserves theepithet of pretty than the Warblers ; Tan-agers are splendid; Humming-birds arerefulgent; other kinds are brilliant, gaudyor magnificent, but Warblers alone arepretty in the proper and full sense of thatterm. As they are full of nervous activity, andare eminently migratory birds, theyseem to flit rather than fly through theUnited States as they pass northward inthe spring to their breeding places, andsouthward in the fall to their winter homesamong the luxuriant forests and planta-tions of the tropics. All the species arepurely American, and as they fly fromone extreme to the other of their migra-tory range they remain but a few days inany int

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