Identifier: birdsnature131903chic (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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e comes migration will be over. Inthis article I have made no mention ofthe water or game birds. Of the formerI know very little, as I have no chanceof obseiwing, there being no river or lakefor some distance. Of the latter but vervfew migrate through our neighborhoodthat I know about, the only ones beingthe woodcock, besides wild ducks andgeese. The foregoing list is not exhaustiveby any means, but they are the moreprominent birds whose habits and dispo-sition I have been observing for the pastfew years. It is with the same pleasure that I record the first migrant for 1902 and watch the oncoming of the great army that will so soon-be here. To anyone who has a love of nature implanted in his breast, the making of a few notes on birds and flowers will be a pleasure that grows with him as the years pass and his knowledge increases. Especially if he can say yes to Emersons query: Hast thou named all birds vvithout a gun,Loved the wild-rose and left it on its stalk? Warren T. Higgins. 164
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FROM COL. CHI. AC*0. SCIENCES. 5(34 WESTERN RED-TAILED HAWK. (Buteo borealis calurusi 5/6 Life-size. Corvnil^HT IS03, By a. v.. u^unjfo, cmuuia. THE WESTERN RED-TAILED HAWK. (Buteo borealis caiurus.) The Western Red-tail is but a darkervariety of the red-tailed hawk so com-mon in the eastern portion of NorthAmerica, where it is commonly calledHen Hawk. The v/estern form has along and narrow range covering that partof North America between the RockyMountains and the Pacific Ocean andpassing southward into^ Mexico. As acasual visitor, it has also been observedeast of mountain system. It is only asummer resident in the northern part ofits range. It is one of the earliest of themigrating birds to return to its nestinglocalities in the spring and one of thelast to wend its way southward in thefall. Living in a mountainous regionand soaring over verdant fields whereinnumerable cattle are feeding, no wordsseem more fitting to its character thanthose of the poet when he says: And yonder hawk,

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