Birds and nature

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Identifier: birdsnature721900chic (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
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^ Though the man whowould truly relish and enjoy it must bepreviously furnished with a large andvarious stock of ideas, which he mustbe capable of turning over in his ownmind, of comparing, varying, and con-templating upon with pleasure; he mustso thoroughly have seen the world asto cure him of being over fond of it;and he must have so much good senseand virtue in his own heart as to pre-vent him from being disgusted with hisown reflections, or uneasy in his owncompany. Alas! ^By permission.
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THE GOPHER. THE name of gopher, according toBrehm, is applied in someAmerican localities to variousother widely variant rodents.The zoologists, who first described theanimal, obtained their specimens fromIndians, who had amused themselvesby cramming both cheek pouches fullof earth, distending them to such a de-gree that if the animal had walked thepouches would have trailed on theearth. These artificially distendedpouches obtained for the gopher itsname; the taxidermists who preparedthe dead specimens endeavored to givethem what was supposed to be a life-like appearance by following the prac-tice of the Indians in distending thecheek pouches, and the artists who de-lineated the animal followed the mod-els which were accessible to them, buttoo truly in their drawings. Owing tothese circumstances, the pictures ofgophers of even recent date representreally monstrous animals, when theyhonestly intend to familiarize us withthe gopher. The gopher may be found east ofthe Rocky Mountains and

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