Identifier: birdsnature161904chic (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 Institution Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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ch areas those of the Magnolia in miniature.Then there are the hard and the soft Ma-ples, the White Oak, the Hickory, theAsh, the Elms, and many more; but asthey are plentiful at the north as well asin the Southland, we need not particular-ize in a description of them. It strikes one, at times, as almost in-congruous, to see such contrasts as Or-ange and Hickory, Magnolia and WhiteOak, Palm and Maples, growing sideby side in the wildwoods, as they do inthe South; but this adds beauty, tone anda happy variation to the enjoyment ofa ramble among the wildwoods of theSouthland. Mary M. Stratner. in AUGUST. Wre follow, follow through the lanes, And up the pasture-way,The August voice, whose^clear refrains Fill all a summers day. We rally, rally with our kin In dale and dingle, whereThe August heart beats high, as in The days of little care. O, tarry in the garden-close, And comrade with the glen,To learn the way that August knows Unto the hearts of men. —Frank Walcott Hutt. 56 ■MMH ; ,
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THE PRAIRIE HEN. ( Tympanuckus americanus.) Westward the Prairie Chicken, like the course of empire, takes its way; for although itmay increase at the pioneer stage of civilization, it halts at the introduction of the steamplough and railroad, to disappear forever where villages run together into cities. —Neltje Blanchan, in Birds that Hunt and are Hunted. The habits of the Prairie Hen are op-posed to the ways of civilization and toits own best interests. Its range at anearlier period was much larger than atthe present day, and seems to have ex-tended quite to the Atlantic coast. Itsextermination in many localities has beendue to one or all of several causes. Itwas extensively sought by the hunter ofgame birds, and its apparent lack ofjudgment in the selection of nesting siteshas also assisted in its extermination.Many nests are placed in meadows andfields where the eggs are destroyed bymowing machines or ploughed under inthe breaking up of the soil. To a cer-tain extent, their grai

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