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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
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red tribe went out of the Ark inflying colors, singing, chirping, cooing,caroling, warbling, yodelirig and trill-ing, and, as the Bird of Jove rose in theair, he was heard to shout back at theparagon of animals: Why dont youfly out, old man? The taunt of the eagle was afterwardstruthfully, but ineffectually, answered bythe Latin poet: Sine pennis haud volare potest^Albert W. Gaines. THE WHITE BIRCH A fall of gold leaves in the sunset light, A myriad silver twinkling stars, the leavesOf dainty White Birch trees appear at night When softly rustled by a zephyr breeze.Slender shafts of purest white uphold A thousand tender tints of green at dawn.When rosebuds dripping with the dew unfold Their petals to the larks exultant song.The fit companion of Parisian lawns The White Birch tree, true aristocracySeems to possess. No forest wildness warns The vagrant deer to tread less daintily.Indeed, beside the White Birch who could beAught but a child in chaste simplicity? —Frederick E. Beebe, 104
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THE BLACK DUCK (Anas obsciira.) The Black Duck is chiefly an easternspecies though its range extends west-ward to the Mississippi Valley, and it isnot rare in the northern portion of thisValley according to some observers. Itsbreeding range extends from the north-ern United States northward to the lati-tude of Labrador. While it is calledthe Black Duck a more proper name isDusky Duck, for this name more truth-fully represents its color. Its habits arequite similar tp those of the mallard andfor this reason it is quite frequentlycalled the-Black or Dusky Mallard, es-pecially by sportsmen. This species issaid to be the most abundant of all thefresh water ducks in the New EnglandStates. However, the Black Ducks donot seem to associate with each other invery large flocks. This is especially truein the western portion of their rangewhere they are more often seen in pairsor in very small companies. In his Birds of New England, Mr.Edward A. Samuels gives an interest-ing account of their habi

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