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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d by the pecu-liar manner in which their hind wingsare tailed. Their color is a dull brownof various shades, marked in some ofthe varieties with specks of white orblue. Their presence in the gardens andmeadows, says a recent writer, andin the fields and along the river-banks,adds another element of gladness whichwe are quick to recognize, and eventhe plodding wayfarer who has not thehonor of a single intimate acquaint-ance among them might, perhaps, bethe first to miss their circlings abouthis path. As roses belong to June,and chrysanthemums to November, soButterflies seem to be a joyous part ofJuly. It is their gala-day, and theyare everywhere, darting and cir-cling and sailing, dropping to investi-gate flowers and overripe fruit, andrising on buoyant wings high into theupper air, bright, joyous, airy, ephe-meral. But July can only claim thelarger part of their allegiance, for theyare wanderers into all the othermonths, and even occasionally bravethe winter with torn and faded win^s.
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Melitsea chalcedon.Thecla crysalus.Anthocharis sara. BUTTERFLIES.—Life-size.—Third Series. Papilio tfioas. Pripilio philenor. Argynis idalia. COPYRIGHT 1900, BY A. MUMFORD, CHICAGO Limenitis arthemis var. lamina. Cvstineura dorras. Thecla halesus. THE FOX, A sly dog. Somehow people always saythat when they see a Fox. Idrather they would call me thatthan stupid, however. Do Ilook stupid in my picture? Look pleasant, said the manwhen taking my photograph forBirds, and I flatter myself I did—and intelligent, too. Look atmy brainy head, my delicateears—broad below to catch everysound, and tapering so sharplyto a point that they can shapethemselves to every wave ofsound. Note the crafty calcula-tion and foresight of my low,flat brow, the resolute purposeof my pointed nose; my eye deepset—like a robbers—my thincynical lips, and mouth openfrom ear to ear. You couldntfind a better looking Fox if yousearched the world over. I can leap, crawl, run, andswim, and walk so noiselesslyth

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