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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 Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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did not doubt it. Rest H. Metcalf. MY DOG-WOOD TREE Its slender portions roughly clad Are curved in lines distinct and bold,Blending with grace the strength of steel; So stands my tree through the winters cold,And I marvel not that lovingly The snow-flakes soft its twigs enfold. But when spring comes with long, bright hours, And promises of summer gay.My tree is decked with blossoms white. That cluster close round its branches grey,Companions of the violets blue. And friends of the frail wind-flowers, they. But when the sunset of the year Blends earth and sky in radiance bright^My Dog-wood lights its jets of flame Where once had flaunted its blossoms white,And the frost elves touch with magic brush Its leaves, and lo! they glow with light. In summers heat, and winters cold. It stands, a thing of beauty still,A picture by my window framed, Gainst the shaded background of the hill;A friend most true is my Dog-wood tree, Constant and strong, through good and ill. —Kate Matson Post. 188
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THE DUSKY GROUSE (Dendragapus obscurus.) The Dusky Grouse is known by sev-eral common names. It is also calledvery properly the Mountain and PineGrouse, for it inhabits the pine regions.Pine Hen, Blue, Gray and Fool Grouseare names sometimes applied to it. Per-haps the latter name is the most fitting,for it often does what seems to be veryfoolish. An observer in Colorado hassaid: Until almost fully grown theyare very foolish; flushed they will treeat once, in the silly belief that they areout of danger, and will quietly sufferthemselves to be pelted with clubs andstones until they are struck down oneafter another. With a shot gun, ofcourse, the whole covey is bagged with-out much trouble; and as they are, inmy opinion, the most delicious of allgrouse for -the table, they are gatheredunsparingly.* To the sportsmen of thefar western United States this Grouseoccupies the same exalted position thatthe ruffed grouse does in the minds ofthe eastern lover of game birds. These handsome birds

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