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Identifier: birdsnature9101unse (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: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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scarce can work for loving. On lower floor, * Beside her door,The wren is surely scolding. If one but glance She cries, No chanceTo rent the flat Im holding. To hear her scold, The sparrow boldAnd jay, beside her dwelling, Cry, Tschip, tschip, chee! Tease! tease! say we!The noise and chatter swelling. On orchard wall, To quip and call,A stranger gay is listening; His mate can hear In meadow near,Where daisy-birds are glistening. Oh, Lady-link! Ho, ho! just think!To nest in trees what folly, When they might be, Like you and me,In Daisy-land so jolly! Down Pipin-wayWhere branches sway, An oriole hammock swings.Mistress starlingAnd kingbirds darling. Rest near with brooding wings. If you should go Down Blossom-row,Which runs right through the center, At each day, In morning gray,Youd hear from every renter. For handed down In Orchard town,Tis quite an ancient notion, To wake the earth With song and mirth,Such joy is their devotion. —Isabel Goodhue. 8 UBKARVUNJVERSITY Of ILLINOISURBAN/*
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THE SANDERLING. (Calidris arenaria.) By the beach border, where the breezeComes freighted from the briny seas,By sandy bar and weedy rockI frequent meet thy roving flock;Now hovering oer the bending sedge,Nor gatherd at the ocean edge;Probing the sand for shrimps and shells,Or worms marine in hidden cells. —Isaac McClellan. This little shore or beach bird is some-times called the White or Surf Snipe, andthe Ruddy Plover. It breeds only in thecolder portions of the northern hemis-phere and migrates southward, even be-yond the equator where it makes its homeduring the winter months. It frequentschiefly those regions near the surf-beatenshores of the oceans. It is also a com-mon visitor to the beaches of larger in-land waters. On these shores its beautifulform and habits are very noticeable. Itwalks and runs in a dignified and grace-ful manner as it chases the receding wa-ter searching for its food. The pure white of the plumage of theunder parts of the bird is a striking char-acterist

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