Identifier: grayladybirdssto00wrig (find matches)
Title: Gray lady and the birds; stories of the bird year for home and school
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Wright, Mabel Osgood, Mrs., 1859-
Subjects: Birds Birds
Publisher: New York, The Macmillan company
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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g inward, havenot yet looked outward and upward to this poet of thesky and the earth and the fulness and goodness thereof. For the Bluebird was the first of all poets, — evenbefore man had blazed a trail in the wilderness or set upthe sign of his habitation and tamed his thoughts to wearharness and travel to measure. And so he came to inheritthe earth before man, and this, our country, is all theBluebirds country, for at some time of the year he rovesabout it from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and fromMexico to Nova Scotia, though westward, after hepasses the range of the Rocky Mountains, he wears a dif-ferent dress and bears other longer names. In spite of the fact that our eastern Bluebird is ahome-body, loving his nesting-haunt and returning to ityear after year, he is an adventurous traveller. Rangingall over the eastern United States at some time in theseason, this bird has its nesting-haunts at the very edge ofthe Gulf States and upward, as far north as Manitoba andNova Scotia.
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Upper Fjgures—CHESTNUT-BACKED BLUEBIRD Order—Passeres Family - Turdid^ Genus—SiALiA Species—Mexicana Subspecies—Bairdi Lower Figures—BLUEBIRDSOrder—Passeres Family — Turdid.b Genus-SiALiA Species-Siaus FEBRUARY, THE LONG-SHORT MONTH 315 When the breeding season is over, the birds travelsometimes in family groups and sometimes in large flocks,moving southward little by little, according to season andfood-supply, some journeying as far as Mexico, otherslingering through the middle and southern states. TheBluebirds that live in our orchards in summer are very un-likely to be those that we see in the same place in winterdays. Next to breeding impulse, the migrating instinctseems to be the strongest factor in bird life. When thelife of the home is over, Nature whispers, To wing, upand on! So a few of the Bluebirds who have nested inMassachusetts may be those who linger in New Jersey,while those whose breeding-haunts were in Nova Scotiadrift downward to fill their places in

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