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Identifier: birdsnature551899chic (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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ey seem to be their natural en-emies. Little boys, I am sorry to say,cause great destruction of birds, oftenthoughtlessly, by trying their marks-manship. I would banish every slingshot! It is even worse than takingeggs, for they are generally replaced;but when the mother-bird is taken alittle brood is left helpless to suffer anddie. Thoughtful kindness towards littlebirds should be encouraged amongchildren. I would have one day eachyear devoted to the subject in all pub-lic schools. It would bring birds underthe observation of many who otherwisewould pass them by unnoticed, andwhen one takes an interest in anything,be it flowers or birds, he or she is lesslikely to cause their destruction. MARCH AND MAY. The brown, brown woods of March Are the green, green woods of May,And they lift their arms with a freer swing And shake out their pennons gay.And the brown, dead world of March Is the living world of to-day;Life throbs and flushes and flashes out In the color and fragrance of May. 212
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BONAPARTE^S GULL, (Lams Philadelphia.) LYNDS JONES. THE whole of North America isthe home of this pretty littlegull—from the Bermudas toLabrador on the east, Californiato the Yukon on the west, and fromthe Gulf of Mexico at least to the Arc-tic circle. This species is often com-mon near streams and other bodies ofwater large enough to furnish theirfood of fish. I have often seen flocksof twenty or more birds passing overcentral Iowa during the vernal migra-tions, sometimes even stooping tosnatch some toothsome grub from thefreshly turned furrow, but oftenersweeping past within easy range inthat lithe, graceful flight so character-istic of this small gull. To the farmboy, shut in away from any body ofwater larger than an ice pond, whereno ocean birds could ever be expectedto wander, the appearance of this bird,bearing the wild freedom of the oceanin his every movement, is truly arevelation. It sends the blood cours-ing hotly through his veins until theimpulse to get away into the bro

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