Identifier: birdsnature111902chic (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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n our return trip, the weather beingcalm, no birds were: Buffeted and baffled, with the gusty gale,hence our only stowaways were a coupleof yellow warblers, who spent most oftheir time in one of the offices catch-ing flies on the wall, and we were obligedto resort to other resources for our en-tertainment, and found at least artisticas well as botanical enjoyment in look-ing at the great bunches of golden rod,yellow cone flowers and pale primroses,a combination of yellows that formed anexquisite blend, and which covered theembankment of the great willow dike onSt. Clair Flats, that seems fast runninginto a state of dilapidation and decay.But it is a delightful sail down the wil-low-bordered lane of blue water, a straybit of Venice with Venice left out, as itwere, and where no angry waters tossthe brave mariner and consequently sea-sick traveler across mighty billows, aperformance which is a by no meanscharming accessory to ones erstwhilehome on the bounding deep. Alberta A. Field. 116
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fHOM COL. CHI. ACAD. 8CIENC18. 47(5 HAIRY WOODPECKER. (Dryobates villnsus ) % L.i e-size. OOPVUIOHT l>09, BY A. MUMFOKO, CNIOAte. THE HAIRY WOODPECKER. (Dryobates villosus.) The woodpeckers on trunk of gnarled trees Tap their quick drum-beats with their horny beaks. —Isaac McLellan, Natures Invitation. The geographical and the breedingranges of the Hairy Woodpecker arepractically the same. These includeeastern North America from the south-ern provinces of Canada southward tothe States bordering the Gulf of Mexicoand those of the southeastern UnitedStates bordering the Atlantic Ocean. Inthese States it is occasionally found dur-ing the winter season. Westward itsrange extends to the Rocky Mountains.It is, however, most abundant in theforest areas of the Northern and MiddleStates, where, as it is a hardy bird andnot greatly affected by extreme cold,it is generally a constant resident.Though occasionally found in old or-chards, its choice feeding grounds arethe timbered regions of r

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