Identifier: alabamabirddaybo1913alab (find matches)
Title: Alabama bird day book
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Alabama. Dept. of Game and Fish Alabama. Dept. of Conservation
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: Montgomery, Ala. : Dept. of Game and Fish
Contributing Library: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library

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ok TINY THINGS. THE murmur of a waterfall a mile away,The rustle when a robin lights upon the spray,The lapping of a lowland stream on dipping boughs,The sound of grazing from a herd of gentle cows,The echo from a wooded hill of a cuckoos call,The quiver through the meadow grass at evening fall;Too subtle are these harmonies for pen or rule.Such music is not understood by any school,But when the brain is overwrought, it hath a spellBeyond all human skill and power to make it well. The memory of a kindly word far long gone by, The fragrance of a fading flower sent lovingly, The gleam of a sudden smile or sudden tear, The warmer pressure of the hand, the tone of cheer, That hush that means: I cannot speak but I have heard The note that bears only a verse from Gods own Word. Such tiny things we hardly count as ministry, The givers deeming they have shown scant sympathy, But when the heart is overwrought, oh, who can tell The power of such tiny things to make it well. —Scranton Truth. m
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INDIGO BUNTING. (Passerina cyanea, Linn). About Life-size. COPYRIGHT 1900, BY A. W. MUMFORO, CHICAGO Alabama, ip 13. 33 THE INDIGO BUNTING. RICH color is the chief attribute that sets the Indigo Buntingapart from its kin of the tribe of Sparrows and Finches.Blue that is decided in tone, and not a bluish gray, is one of therarest hues among the birds of temperate zones; for one may countthe really blue birds of the eastern United States upon the fingersof one hand. This Bunting belongs to the tree-loving and tree-nesting partof his tribe, in company with the Grosbeaks and the brilliant yellowAmerican Goldfinch, whose black cap, wings and tail feathers onlyenhance his beauty. The Sparrows, of sober stripes, nest on ornear the ground, and their plumage blends with brown grass, twigsand the general earth coloring, illustrating very directly the theoryof color-protection, while the birds of brilliant plumage invariablykeep more closely to the trees. In size, the Indigo Bunting ranks with t

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