Identifier: birdsnature161904chic (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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ed to lie, And spread from thence a silver sea, over hill and valley,Till on horizon far away it blended into sky. Placid it lay and lovely, with two or three green islands Where hemlocks on the hillside pushed their highest branches through; From low clouds hanging eastward, the sun shot golden arrowsAthwart the silver of the sea, while overhead was blue. It seemed like some enchantment. We were in another country In landscape unfamiliar, with no hint of yesterday.But soon the wind began to blow, the silver sea was troubled, It rose and fell, then slowly breaking vanished far away. —Jaen Flower. THE LARK. The Lark must soar to pourIts song athwart the sky,Earth-bound it could not hearThe heavenly music near,Repeat the echoes in its melody. Soar high and sing, O Lark! on tireless wing! Tell us who wait The secrets thou has gleaned At Heavens gate! Repeat the song They sing above the storm, Our songs re-form! To thee belong Two worlds, Linked by thy song. —Nelly Hart Woodworth. 198
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THE SORA RAIL. (Porzana Carolina) This is probably the best known of ourwater birds and at times the most abund-ant, particularly in the Eastern Statesduring- the fall migration when they con-gregate on the marshes in immense num-bers. In the early mornings and even-ings they may be readily flushed, butduring the day they lie close and mayoften be picked up by hand or brought toone by the dog. In past years I have nodoubt that the Calumet Region innorthern Illinois and the Kankakee Re-gion in Indiana were the largest breed-ing ground of this bird in the UnitedStates. In Illinois, they arrive about thelast of April. They seem to be rathererratic in their movements, but when theycome it is in immense numbers. It hasbeen a great pleasure to me to visit andstudy this gentle and unobtrusive littlebird. This can be done to the bestadvantage when the spring has been arather late and wet one and the grass nottoo high. Find a spot where the marshruns well into the underbrush and wherethe water

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