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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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ll this activity seemed to bethe very laudable one of breakfast, din-ner and supper, and although so verypractical, every motion was grace itself. Indeed, what could be more interest-ing ? Bits of color flitting to and fro, giv-ing first a glimpse of sky and then a flashof sunshine. The myrtle warbler is verychary of his gold, however, displayingit only as he rises to fly, but even thisglint is worth watching for, and I am notcertain that I did not spend more timein that way than in any other, duringtheir whole stay. This little warbler isquite soberly dressed, with this one ex-ception, and an appreciative observeris liable at any moment to be rewardedby one of these golden surprises. I have never known whether myguests had decided before they came justhow long a visit they should make me,or whether their sudden departure wasthe result of a sudden fancy. At allevents the unwelcome time came whenthey should go their way, leaving me theenjoyment of a pleasant memory, Susie E. Kennedy. m
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148 NIGHTINGALE. (Motacilla luscinia). t Life-size. COPYRIGHT 1900, Br A. W. MUMFORO, CHICAGO THE NIGHTINGALE (Motacilla luscinia.) Nightingale is a word derived fromthe Anglo-Saxon word Nihtegale, which,literally translated, means singer ofthe night. In the ancient Latin timesthis bird was spoken of as A voice,and nothing else. Pliny gave aninteresting account of the Nightingalein his Natural History, which, trans-lated from the Latin, reads as follows:The song of the Nightingale is tobe heard, without intermission, for fif-teen days and nights, continuously,when the foliage is thickening, as itbursts from the bud; a bird which de-serves our admiration in no slight de-gree. First of all, what a powerfulvoice in so small a body! Its note, howlong, and how well sustained! And then,^ too, it is the only bird the notes ofwhich are modulated in accordance withthe strict rules of musical science. Thesong is uttered only by the male bird,though many poets, while writing of thebird, have cre

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