Identifier: birdsnature41906chic (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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ngs of the pasture. This isbecause in most cases there is a subtleharmony between the song and its sur-roundings. Imagine, who can, a veery,instead of rolling out his ethereal strainswhile in a pensive, meditative mood,sing while gyrating in aerial evolutions!Take the demure wood pewee into thecity and he loses half of his charm; andthe wood thrush beside a city artery(where I have heard him) is very dif-ferent from the wood thrush of thewoods. Norman Foerster. THE MERTENSIA In a dingle moist and chilly,Habitation of the lily,Underneath the frowning hill,Where the crystal spring-drops spill,Just beyond the flowing river,Where the willows bend and quiver,So, the blue Virginia flower.With the fronded ferns and grasses,And the perfumed zephyr passes.Through the aisles of Sylvas bower:Purely blue, the clustering bells.Emulates and oft excelsThe cerulean depths of morning,Natures tangled wilds adorning,Where the twilight, moist and chilly.Gathers round the vestal lily. —Charles F. Fudge.
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FROM roi. c^ i(;() wiiriiMAci.n ^.T.()ss^■ nus ! Ilcjiadis j,Mi;ir;iiiii;i I.I Life-M/f. BY A. W MUMPrRD THE WHITE-FACED GLOSSY IBIS (Plegadis guarauna.) The White-faced Glossy Ibis which isessentially a southern bird has an inter-esting range. In the United States itmay be given as the western states ex-tending from Texas to California andnorthward to Oregon. It has also beenseen in British Columbia. New Mexico,Kansas, Arizona, Utah, and Nevada arealso within its range, and the species isquite common in suitable localities It hasbeen found breeding in Florida. Mr.W. W. Cooke says that it is a rare sum-mer visitant in Colorado, and Mr. Ridg-way concludes, because it is found withinthe state during the summer, that itbreeds there in the marshes and val-leys. Its range also extends southwardthrough the West Indies and Mexico toSouth America. There about thirty species of the ibisesand they are natives of tlie warmer por-tions of the world. Of this number onlyfour are found in North Am

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