Identifier: wisconsinbirdstu1906mitc (find matches)
Title: Wisconsin bird-study bulletin
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Mitchell, I. N Mitchell, I. N., Mrs Barnett, Maud
Subjects: Birds Bird watching
Publisher: Madison : C.P. Cary, State Superintendent
Contributing Library: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library

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w, flewupon the cage and the two birds touched bills in a friendly way.The oriole then flew to the back of a chair from which point helooked curiously about. While he was thus engaged, Lady Baltimoreappeared in the clematis and called. At her call Lord B. attemptedto fly out to the vine, but as usual mtli birds, he could not appreciateglass, and struck against it. He fell below the sash, however, andeasily escaped. Either his curiosity was satisfied or Lady Baltimoreentered a protest against such conduct for the visit to the canarywas not repeated. How falls it, Oriole, thou hast come to fly In tropic splendor through our northern sky? At some glad moment was it Natures choice To dower a scrap of sunset with a voice? Or did some orange tulip flaked with black. In some forgotten garden, ages back, Yearning toward Heaven until its wish was heard, Desire unspeakably to be a bird?* *To an Oriole, by Edgar Fawcett, from With the Birds of Indi-ana, compiled by The Public Library Commission.
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w«^ j!a,:,K(r»^ , \:..v, 1%., y 93 CHIMNEY SWIFT. 423. Chsetura pelagica. (Linn.) % Life-size. COPYRIGHT 1900, BY A. W. MUMFORD, CHICAGO WISCONSIN BIRD-STUDY BULLETIN. CHIMNEY SWIFT, CHIMNEY SWEEP. Abundant summer resident; length about five and one-half inches;sexes alike; nest made of light twigs or leaf stems glued togetheragainst some wall hy salivu in such a way as to form a sliallow, halfsaucer-shaped bit of lattice work; eggs four to. six, pure white. The chimney swift with his long, narrow, scythe-shaped wings,looks and acts so much like a swallow that it is often mistaken lorone. It has even come to be called the chimney swallow. The swifts are duslcy little birds of a sooty black color, lighter onthe throat. The bill is quite short but the mouth is veiy wide at itsbase. The tail is noticeably different from the ordinary birds tail.The feathers are short and the quills or shafts extend beyond thevanes for about a quarter of an inch. These spiny tips of the tailfeathers serv

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