Identifier: birdsnature9101unse (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: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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kins that supply the markets of theworld all come from the arctic countriesof the three northern continents, Europe,Asia and North America. A permanentfeature of the Ermines coat is the glossyblack tail tip, which in the preparationof the fur is inserted at regular intervalson the white, where the sharp contrastgives a most pleasing effect. An utter abhorrence of uncleanness isa characteristic instinct of his lordship,and impels him to suffer capture or deathrather than become soiled or bedraggled.This sentiment of purity is figurativelytransferred to the fur whose use on thegarments of rulers and judges symbol-izes the purity of justice and law. Determination and perseverance arequalities displayed in the pursuit of gamefor food, consisting of small herbivorousanimals, birds, and eggs. In length theErmines body is about ten inches; thetail, four inches; the legs are short, bear-ing the slender body with a creepingsnake-like motion. M. A. Hoyt. LIBRARYOfilYERSiTV Of ILLINOIS ;lpR6.\ji
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454 RHESUS MONKEY.(Macacus rhesus.) COPYRIGHT °01, BY «. W. MUMFOP.O, CHICAGO. THE RHESUS MONKEY. (Macacus rhesus.) It was in Simla that we first encoun-tered the Rhesus Monkey. We had goneup to Simla to escape the intense heat ofBombay, and, refreshed by the cool air ofthe hill country, we were soon readyto make the expedition to the hill calledJako. This hill is indeed the hill of themonkeys. It is eight or nine thousandfeet above the level of the sea, and herelives a fakir, who feeds the monkeys asthey troop down the mountainside at hiscall. Undoubtedly there is no more mis-chievous monkey than the Rhesus, but,after all, he is not altogether to blame,for the blame may belong to the Hindoos.Some tell us that the Rhesus Monkey issacred; others think not. But, howeverthat mav be, it is a fact that the Hindoosprotect the monkeys in every possibleway, willingly sharing their food withthe bands which are found almost every-where, and permitting no one to killthem. This fosters every mi

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