File:Birds and nature (1906) (14563776640).jpg

Identifier: birdsnature41906chic (find matches)
Title: Birds and nature
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors:
Subjects: Birds Natural history
Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : A.W. Mumford, Publisher
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Institution Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
ime. But more of it is carriedto flowers of another plant, by whichmeans cross-fertilization which is best,is effected. It is true and strange thatthe insects always confine themselves tosome particular species on each jour-ney, so no hybrids are produced. If you will wander among your plantsin the twilight you will notice that themost conspicuous flowers are the da-turas, moon flowers, nicotanias and nightblooming cereus. These depend uponmoths for fertilization so they are eithercreamy-white or pale-yellow, which col-ors are most noticeable in the dusk, and,generally, evening flowers are very fra-grant. If you will examine them, youwill find that most every flower has anoriginal way of fertilization and of pro-tection after the seed is set. Flower in the crannied wall, I pluck you out of the crannies, I hold you here, root and all, in my hand. Little flower—but if I could vinderstand What you are, root and all, and all in all, T should know what God and man is. Mary Auck Moylk. 20
Text Appearing After Image:
164 DOWNY WOODPECKFK (I )i\()bates piiliesceiisK I.if.-si/e. COPVHK.HT IlOO, BY A W. MUMFORD, CHICAGO THE DOWNY WOODPECKER (Dryobates piibesce7is.) To most people the mention of wood-pecker brings to mind at once the red-head or the flicker. Everybody is ac-quainted with these birds and knows theday they make their appearance inspring; they announce their coming witha display of color and vociferous cries,the red-head with his clerk or da,re-dare-dare and the yellow-hammer -v^^ithhis flicker, flicker, flicker, and every-one hears and notes those sonorous tap-pings with which they call their mates.Comparatively few are acquainted withthe one that is in many ways the most in-teresting of them all, the Downy, and ofthose who do know him by sight, he isusually called by a slanderously incrimi-nating name Sapsucker, and his man-ner of life viewed with suspicion. There are few better examples of mod-est worth hidden in obscurity than inthe case of the little Downy. If all thewoodpeckers wer

Note About Images