Identifier: birdsnature751900chic (find matches)
Title: Birds and nature
Year: 1900 (1900s)
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Subjects: Birds Natural history
Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : A.W. Mumford, Publisher
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ove! Oh, love! forever bright,Like sunny skies your life appears. And songs of joy your hearts delight. If storms or shadows dark affright.My love endures and conquers fears! SOME EARLY RISERS. An ornithologist, having investi-gated the question of at what hour insummer the commonest small birdswake and sing, says the greenfinch isthe earliest riser, as it pipes as e.arly as1130 in the morning, the blackcap be-gmning at about 2:30. It is nearly 4:00oclock, and the sun is well above thehorizon before the first real songsterappears in the person of the blackbird.He is heard a half an hour before the thrush, and the chirp of the robin be-gins about the same length of time be-fore that of the wren. The house spar-row and the tomtit occupy the lastplace in the list. This investigationhas ruined the larks reputation forearly rising. That much-celebratedbird is quite a sluggard, as it does notrise until long after the chaffinches,linnets, and a number of hedgerow birdshave been up and about.
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THE YOUNG NATURALIST. TESTING THE CLEANNESSOF THE AIR.—Professor De-war has recently devised a newmethod of testing the contami-nation of the air, A short time ago heexhibited before the Royal institutiontwo samples of liquid air in glass tubes—one was made from air which hadbeen washed to purify it from dust,soot, carbonic acid and other impuri-ties. This, when condensed, was apale blue liquid. The other samplewas made by condensing the air of thelecture-room in which the audience wasassembled, and was an opaque, black-ish fluid, resembling soup in appear-ance. THEIR WONDERFUL EYES.—When a fly comes from an egg, one of afamily of thousands, it is soft, pulpy,white, eyeless, legless. When mature itaffords the student one of the most mar-velous fields in all nature, with its nerveclusters and brain, its feet like thehoofs of a rhinoceros, a thousand hol-low hairs on each footpad, the wings,which make 15,000 vibrations a second,and the eyes. There are 8,000 ofthese, each a perfect

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