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Identifier: birdsnature531899chic (find matches)
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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r teachers have made thelot of our common birds their dailystudy and delight. In the oldest kin-dergarten in the city the window sillsare raised and the birds food scatteredupon a level with the glass, so thatevery action of the little creatures canbe watched with ease by the childrenwithin. In numbers of homes and in many ofour business offices the daily needs ofour little feathered brothers arethoughtfully cared for. Let this feeling grow and this inter-est deepen in the hearts of Denverites,especially in the childrens hearts. Itwill make this city a veritable paradiseas the summer approaches, full ofthe song of birds. It will make of it aheaven in the course of time, for notonly the humble finch and snowbird,but for natures most beautiful and aris-tocratic choristers. To-day is the day of salvation. To-day is the very best day of the bestmonth in which to consider the needsof these poor which, thank God, wehave always with us.—Anne C. Steele,171 Denver Evening Post, Feb. j, i8gg.
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HOODED MKKLiANSER.• 7 Life-size. NATURE STUDY PU8 CO.. CHICAGO. THE HOODED MERGANSER. (Lophodytes cucullatus.) LYNDS JONES. EVEN the merest tyro in birdstudy need have no fear of con-fusing the male of this specieswith any other bird, as a glanceat the picture will make evident. Noother bird can boast such a crest, andfew ducks a more striking pattern ofdress or a more stately manner. Thespecies inhabits the whole of NorthAmerica, including Cuba, occasionallywandering to Europe and rarely toGreenland, it is locally common andeven abundant, or used to be, in wellwatered and well wooded regions wherefish are abundant, but seems to be grow-ing less numerous with the advance ofsettlements in these regions. The foodconsists of fish, mollusks, snails, andfresh water insects whfch are obtainedby diving as well as by gleaning. The winter range of this fish duckis largely determined by the extent ofopen water on our lakes and streams.Thus it is regularly found in Minnesotawherever there is o

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