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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
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s the bird indulges in a continu-ous warble that is really enchanting. Ithas, too, a musical chatter and a prettytrilled whistle. In Mr. Keysers experience the songwas varied and lively, sometimes runninghigh in the scale, and had not that ab-sentyminded air which marks the rounde-lay of the warbling vireo. It is muchmore intense and expressive. Mr. Brewer describes the song as aprolonged and very peculiar ditty, re-peated at frequent intervals and alwaysidentical. It begins with a lively andpleasant warble, of a gradually ascendingscale, which at a certain pitch suddenlybreaks down into a falsetto note. Thesong then rises again in a single note andceases. The notes of the female suggest to Mr.Burroughs the bleating of a tiny lamb-kin. To Mr. Nuttall its song seems tobe intermediate between that of the red-eyed and the yellow-breasted species,having the *preai, prcai, of the latter andthe fine variety of the former in itstones. To all the music of the Solitary\irc() is (lclici(^ns. so
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FROM COL. CHI. ACAD SCIENCES 465 BLUE-HEADED VIREO (Vireo solitarius.) Vs Life-size. COPYRISHT 1902, BY A. W. MUMFORD, BOOK AND MRS, OYSTER At the death of his dear mother httleWilHs went from his western farm hometo stay for a few years with his AuntJennie in an eastern seaport town. One day she had oysters in the shellfor dinner. As his parents had wiselytried to keep his eyes and ears keen inregard to common things, he was full ofquestions. His aunt told him that the next timeshe bought live oysters she would givehim some to watch and study. Only afew weeks later she was expecting com-pany to dinner and had a chance to keepher word. Fill this with water, said she, givinghim a plain glass fruit dish, and putyour oyster in it. But, said Willis, oysters live in seawater, which is salty. Yes; they do live in sea water. Inorder to grow and thrive they must havevegetable and mineral substances foundin sea water. But they can live in freshwater. Oystermen make a practice ofmoving them fro

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