Identifier: birdsnature101901chic (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 Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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eet distant,chirping cheerfully, with the plumage allloosened and puffy, making very prettyroly-poly looking objects. A very pretty sight, and one that mayfrequently be seen, is a flock of TreeSparrows around some tall weed. Someof the birds will be actively gatheringseeds from the branches of the weed,while others will stand upon the groundor snow and pick up those seeds that aredropped or shaken off by their relativesabove. While thus feeding there seemsto be a constant conversation. If wecould but translate this sweet-voicedchirping perhaps we should find that theyare expressing to each other the pleasurethat the repast is giving them. Their song is sweet and pleasing. Theyare not constant songsters, but seem to bemoved by some unseen spirit, for a flockwill suddenly burst out in a melody ofsong that is entrancing. He who has beenfavored with such a concert is indeedfortunate. Their whole being seems tobe brought into action in the productionof this song, which is somewhat crude no
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FROM COL. CHI. ACAD. SCIENCES. TREE SPARROW. (Spizella monticola). About Life-size. COPYRIGHT 19C1, OY A. W. MUMFOKD, CHICAGO. and labored in technique, but the tonesare very sweet indeed, not soft and lowbut quite loud and clear. Quite often thesong opens with one or two long syllablesand ends with a merry litle trill havinga delightfully human intonation. Thereis, indeed, something innocent and child-like about the voices of these sparrows.The Tree Sparrow is often called the Winter Chippy and is confounded withthe chipping sparrow, which it resembles.It is a larger bird and carries a mark ofidentification by which it may be easilyknown. There is on the grayish whitebreast a small black spot. Moreover, theTree Sparrow arrives in its winter rangeabout the time that the chippy retires tothe Gulf States and Mexico. THE SPARROWS* BEDTIME. Wee, wee, weet, tweet, tweet, tweet! What a clatter, what a chatterIn the village street.Chee, chee, cheep, cheep, chee, chee, chee!What a rustling, w

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