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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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ns prevailingover other desert regions of the earth. Though the statement that lumberingdemands must be supplied may be givenas decisive and incontrovertible bythose standing between our noble for-ests and the vandal forces preying uponthem, and though the owners of estatesmay feel themselves independent andabove reproach in destroying trees lim-iting vision or the boundaries of arableland, let it be ever remembered thatthere are unwritten obligations to theworld which men are bound to considerand there are natural forces which nologic or commercial consideration canover-rule or mitigate. Might not one way of tending to-ward the preservation of timber-land befound through the remission of taxes tothe land-owner in proportion to thearea of timber-reservation which histerritory represents? Even in very small estates this sys-tem might assist in stemming a tidewhich is carrying this country towarda vortex from which the future mayfind it difficult or impossible to recede. George Klingle.
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FROM COL. CHI. ACAD. SCIENCES. 123 FOX SPARROW (Pa.sserella iliaca).i Life-size. COPYRIfiHT 1900, BY A W MUMFORD CHICAGO THE FOX SPARROW (Passerella iliaca.) The Fox Sparrow is one of our most tional outburst rising full-toned andinteresting and engaging birds and sings clear, and passing all too quickly to aa most fascinating song. It has an ex- closing cadence, which seems to lingertensive range covering eastern North in the silent air. It is the song of theAmerica from the Arctic coast, south Fox Sparrow with that fuller power andto the Gulf States, and westward to the richness of tone which come to it, orGreat Plains and Alaska. It breeds, seem to, at the sunset hour. It breakshowever, only north of the United forth as if inspired from pure joy inStates and winters chiefly south of Vir- the awakened season, though with someginia and Illinois. For this reason this vague undertone, scarcely of sadness,species is only known in the northern rather of some lower tone of joy. Mr.United

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