Identifier: birdsnatureinnat02chic (find matches)
Title: Birds and nature in natural colors : being a scientific and popular treatise on four hundred birds of the United States and Canada
Year: 1913 (1910s)
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Subjects: Birds -- North America
Publisher: Chicago : A.W. Mumford, Publisher
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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entleman relates the following story: When I was a boy, living in the hilly country of southern Indiana, Iremember very vividly the nesting of a pair of fine orioles. There stood in thebarnyard a large and tall sugar tree with limbs within six or eight feet of theground. At about thirty feet above the ground I discovered evidences of an oriolenest. A few days later I noticed they had done considerable more work, andthat they were using horsehair, wool and fine strings. They appeared to have some knowledge of spinning, as they would takea horsehair and seemingly wrap it with wool before placing it in a position onthe nest. How Birds Protect Trees By Florence Merrian Bailey Trees are like great hotels—they are so alive with their busy little insectpeople. Like hotels, when we are looking for rooms, there is a choice betweenoutside ones and dark inside ones. The outside ones are in cracks in the bark.Here, in the fall, visiting moths stow away their eggs in snug winter bedchambers, 216
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in GOLDEN ORIOLE.Life-size. and sleepy butterfly children wind themselves in their silken covers and restquietly still spring calls them to unfold their wings and seek the flowers. Beneath the bark, in the inside rooms, live the wood borers, and up and downthe long hallways boring ants run busily to and fro. In the spring the eggs left in the bark hatch into hungry worms, and thou-sands of these new guests climb up to the airy roof gardens of the tree hotels todine in the green banquet halls on fruit and leaves. Indeed, so many hungry in-sect folk board in the hotels, and live on the wood and leaves, that if no boundwere put on their work the boarders would quite eat up their hotels. One small wood borer alone can kill a whole great tree, and thousands andthousands of hungry worms and insects are always at work in our shade trees. Wood ants finds the holes the borers have made, and go on from them,tunneling deeper and deeper into the heart of the trees, till they have honey-combed the

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