Identifier: birdsnature151904chic (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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I once saw four Indians withguns run one down until they caught it.They then pulled out the long feathersof the tail to be used by the medicine-man in his incantations over a sickCherokee. But they at once liberatedthe bird. Why did you not shoot it? Iasked. We could not have killed it.Dont you know it is the heaven bird?was the response. Well here we are at home, criedthe children, let us hasten in and showour canary. Belle Paxson Drury. EVENING. The shadows lengthen on the shimmering lea.And fast the darkness creeps along the glade; Objects rem.ote the eye now fails to see, And scenes less distant, lingering, slowly fade. The weary laborer loves to greet this hour,To lose the cares of life in balmy sleep; To rest his body and renew its power. Then to awake refreshed at mornings peep. All greet thee. Night, when peace and quiet reign; When labor rests and all the world is still.All love to launch into thy sweet domain, To ease the mind of cares which only sleep can kill. -George Gee.
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THE YELLOWSTONE TROUT. (Salmo my kiss leivisi.) In their valuable work The Fishes ofNorth and Middle America/ DoctorsJordan and Evermann tell us that theYellowstone Trout may be found in TheSnake River Basin above the ShoshoneFalls, and crossing the main divide ofthe Rocky Mountains at Two-Ocean Passto the head waters of the Yellowstone,thence to other affluents of the UpperMissouri. In many localities within itsrange this fish is quite abundant. It isa variety of a species which is a nativeof the clear and cold streams of Alaskaand Kamchatka. In those regions itbears the vernacular name Mykiss. Thevarietal name leimsi was given the Yel-lowstone form in honor of Captain Meri-wether Lewis, who in 1803-1806 wasthe leader of the memorable exploringexpedition of Lewis and Clark, and whobrought back specimens of this interest-ing and gamey fish. The typical form of the species mykissis represented by ten or more varieties,each of which is the type found in thewaters of a circumscribed loca

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