Identifier: birdsnature121902chic (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 Institution Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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ave decided to makethe Ani«-nal Fair an annual attraction.Mary McCrae Culter. 103 A DAY. In the morning tlie path by the river Sent me a messenger bird,—Im all by myself and lonely, Come, as I waked I heard. I walked the path by the water, Till a daisy spoke and said,I am so tired of shining; Why dont you pat my head? So I kissed and fondled the daisy, Till the clover upon the leaSaid, Tt is time for eating, Spread your luncheon on me. But first I went to the orchard, And gathered the fruit that hung.Before I answered the green-sward, . Where the clovery grasses swung. Then the rocks on the hill-side called me. And the flowers beside the way,And I talked with the oaks and maples Till Night was threatening Day. Then I knelt at the foot of the sunset, And laid thereon my prayer.And the angels, star-crowned, hurried To carry it up the stair. And this was the plea I put there: Make me so pure and goodThat I shall be worthy the friendship Of river, and field, and wood. Lucia Belle Cook.
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FROM COL. CHI. ACAD ir.lENCFS. 514 GREAT GRAY OWL. (Scotiaptex cinerea). V4 Life-size. THE GREAT GRAY OWL. (Scotiaptex cinerea.) Through Mossy and viny vistas Soaked ever with deepest shade,Dimly the dull owl stared and stared From his bosky ambuscade. —James Whitcomb Riley, A Vision of Summer. The Great Gray or Cinereous Owl isthe largest of the American owls. Theappearance of great size, however, is dueto its thick and fluffy plumage. Its bodyis very small being only slightly largerthan those of the barred or hoot owl.The eggs are also said to be small whencompared with the size of the bird. The range of this handsome Owl ispractically confined to the most northernregions of North America, where itbreeds from the latitude of Hudson Baynorthward as far as forests extend. Inthe winter it is more or less migratory,the distance that it travels southwardseeming to depend solely on the severityof the season. It has been captured inseveral of the northern United States,from the Atlantic

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