Identifier: birdsnature151904chic (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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e round variety are slightly thornyand the fruits vary from about three-fourths to one and one-quarter inches indiameter. The oval or oblong forms areborne by trees without thorns and havea diameter of from three-fourths to oneinch and a length varying from one andone-fourth to two inches. These aremore highly esteemed than are the roundfruits. Though eaten while fresh, this fruit isextensively used in making a preserveand marmalade. It is also candied andis used as a flavor in confectionery. HINTS OF SPRING. Word from the wizard brethren of the wold. Wise, wary couriers of little fame.Repeated in their by-ways manifold Sets wood and swamp aflame. Word from the inner fastness of the wood Rouses, betimes, the sleepers in the glen;News from old haunts, far heard yet understood. Recalls the birds again. There is a folk-meet of the ferns beneath The last years leaves ; and theres a whispering Close to the throbbing bosom of the heathThat hath a hint of Spring. —Frank Walcott Hutt. 134 I
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I THE AUNT JANE STORIES. III. BIRDS WAYS. Do come out to the hammock trees,Aunt Jane, the children are all tired outwith fishing and roaming over themeadows. They want you to tell themthe story of the manners and customsof the birds as you promised. Here she comes,said John, give herthe best cushion. We boys will lie onthe grass, the girls will fill all the ham-mocks. Do you know, boys, said Aunt Jane,that the grass itself would furnish agood subject for our consideration? Not just now, please, we want yourtalk on Bird Ways, for we all mean toget acquainted this summer with ournearest neighbors, the birds. In your quest for knowledge of thebirds it is vain to seek the ornithologist,valuable as his work is, for more thanthe details of structure, description ofhabits, of nest-building and other exter-nals. One who would become reallyacquainted with birds must seek theirsociety and study their characteristicsby means of personal observation. You mean we will have to succeedin getting int

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