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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 Institution Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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ad-ows, these birds are searching for wormsand larvae, which form a large part oftheir diet, and it is at this time that theyshow their yellow breasts with the strik-ing black crescent, to the best advantage.Above they are much variegated, withthe general color brown. Crown withbrown and black streaks, black line be-hind the eye, tail black with white outerquills, wings edged with yellow; underparts yellow, black crescent on throat.While they are feeding they constantlygive their calling song, varying the into-nation and accent in a way which is veryexpressive—Spring o the year, Springo the year! It has a breezy sound, asfresh and wild as if the winds were blow-ing through a flute. Hence it is evident that the poet meant,if he did not mention, the Meadow Lark,when he announced as the result of hispastoral investigations: Not an inch of his body is free from delight.Can he keep himself still if he would? Oh, not he!The music stirs in him like wind through a tree. Juliette A. Owen. 16
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606 Melita testudinata (Florida1). Aristotles Lantern. Diadema setosum (West Indies). SEA URCHINS. COPYRIGHT 1903, Br A. W. MUMFORD, CHICAGO Echinarachinus excentricus (California).Strongylocentrotus drobachiensis (Massachusetts).Kipponoe esculenta (.Bahamas). SEA URCHINS AND SAND DOLLARS. Sea Urchins and Sand Dollars wouldscarcely seem, at first sight, to be re-lated to the starfishes, yet they are inmany respects identical in structure. Inthe Sea Urchin, the five rays of the star-fish are rolled together to form a spheri-cal or flattened disk, which is coveredwith spines of greater or lesser length.These spines work in a ball-and-socketjoint and are capable of considerablemovement. The intestine in the SeaUrchins is unusually long and is twistedabout in the shell in a manner similar tothat of the human intestine. This greatlength is necessary to accommodate thelarge quantities of sand which the SeaUrchin swallows to obtain the minute an-imals which it contains. In one respect the Se

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