Identifier: birdsnature51907chic (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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21 BLUEBIRD. Sialia sialis. (Linn)Life-size. ^ED BY ATKINSON, MENTZER 4 GHOVER, CHICAGO Birds ScNature Magazine Vol. 1—No. 1 Old Series: Vol. 20, No. 4 MAY. 1907 Price 20 Cents $1.50 a Year Postpaid How the Blue Birds Came Back By ELIZABETH and JOSEPH GRINNELL YESTERDAY the snow melted fromthe top of the great rocks in thewoods; the evergreens shading therocks lost their white load that hadbeen bearing down the branches for amonth ; the fences straggled their lean legswide apart, as if it were summer, only thetips of their toes resting on the surfacesnow; the north roof of the barn fringeditself w^ith icicles that tumbled down bynoon, sticking up at the base of the barn inthe drifts head foremost; the top dressingof white powder that for weeks had adornedthe woodpiles sifted down through the sticksin a wet scramble for the bottom. But yesterday the south wind puckeredup its lips and blew all over everything insight. The sun shines across the dooryardas it hasnt shone for so long, ma

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