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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t red fea-thers on his head is concealed from vul-gar gaze. If you have sharp eyes and amoderate degree of patience your effortsto get a glimpse of the red tuft will byand by be crowned with success, but dontbe disappointed if you dont see the rubythe first time you see the bird. I had ob-served the cheerful little chap time aftertime in my morning rambles in thewoods, and bad come to know everytwist and motion of the tiny body beforeI caught a glimpse of the longed-for tuft.Finally one morning as he bent his headto pick up some sweet tid-bit the olive-green feathers parted and I saw his tinycrown. A modest genial little anarchisthe is, never parading his opinions beforean admiring public, but suddenly spring-ing down in front of us on some low bushhe flaunts his red flag and is gone beforewe realize it. Having once learned howand when to look for his crown it is aneasy matter to find it again whenever hislittle majesty feels inclined to give youthe opportunity. James Stephen Compton.
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FROM KaMLCRS MEDICINAL-PFLAN2EN. 40 J IRISH MOSS. OlioMilriiH crlspuH. CHICAGO: A. W. MUMFORD, PUBLISHER. (iifrarliim iiuunillosii. IRISH MOSS. (Chondrus crispus lyngb.) A weary weed tossd to and fro,Drearily drencht in the ocean brine. —Cornelius G. Fenner, Gulf-Weed. Those who have spent any time alongthe sea shore will recall the familiar sea-weeds washed upon the bank by the tideand have watched them idly waving toand fro in the water near the shorewhere the depth does not exceed severalmeters. There are perhaps no plants morebeautiful from the purely artistic point ofview. Many a visitor to a distant seacoast has collected and mounted the morebeautiful and delicate ones as souvenirsto delight the eye of friends. The deli-cate coloring and manifold branchings arethe characteristic of the more attractivespecies. Some are quite small, while oth-ers grow to enormous size. The so-calledsea lettuce is of a bright grass greencolor, forming a large leaf like expan-sion. The Gulf weed,

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