File:Birds and nature (1906) (14752287275).jpg

Identifier: birdsnature31906chic (find matches)
Title: Birds and nature
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors:
Subjects: Birds Natural history
Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : A.W. Mumford, Publisher
Contributing Library: Smithsonian 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:
a bunch of feathers is mains of some dead animal. In strong too plainly evidence of a tragedy among contrast to the large size of the crow the forest folk. But oftener it is the rec- is the little track of the shore-lark. He ord of their ordinary actions, the simple is a walker also and likes to feed with annals of the fields and woods,hogs. But unlike crows, will spend Warren Higgins. much time along roads. GOOD CHEER (Translated from the German of Karl Ebert.) Embodied song, the lark mounts high;Its rapture wafts it toward the sky.And sends it circling through the air:The world is fair! The flower awakes when dawn is bright, • Upholds its chalice to the light.And sheds its perfume like a prayer:The world is fair! Like molten silver, in the stream.Wave after wave reflects the gleam,Bedews the bank and whispers there:The world is fair! Why dost thou stand apart and scan Thy gloomy heart, O brother man? Behold the gladness everywhere. ^hp. world is fair! . at r^ —Alice M. Dowd. 20
Text Appearing After Image:
FROM COL. F. M. WOODRUFF 124 BOB WHITE. (Colinus virginiaiius).% Life-size. COPYRIGHT 19,0, BY *. W. MUMFORD CHICAGO THE BOB-WHITE OR QUAIL ( Co Units virginiamts.) Hark! what is that sound rising clear not be lost sight of, also, that during as a bell across the meadow ? then listen, the breeding season, when the young and again in accents clear comes the call birds are being raised, a large number ringing over the intervening space; of insects and insect-larvae are eaten,bob-white; bob! bob! white. It is The mating season begins about the the call note of one of the most familiar first of April and egg-laying about a of the game birds, the Quail. Observe month later. The nest is built on the him now as he mounts the top rail of ground and is made up of different yonder fence, lifts his head with its grasses. It is partly covered over, an snow-white throat high in the air and opening being left for entrance and exit, again gives vent to his feelings in the The nest is placed in any f

Note About Images