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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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soning, but this is usually caused byeating food made from flour containingthe cockle seed. The wild black cherry, Prunus serotina,though a valuable tree and fruit, hasbeen known to poison cattle by their hav-ing eaten the wilted leaves; and childrenhave been fatally poisoned by swallow-ing the fruit whole, and by eating thekernels of the seeds. The rank and ill-smelling Jimsonweed, Datura stramonium, is very poi-sonous, and several cases of poisoning byit have been reported, though the rank,disagreeable odor one would supposewould be sufficient to prevent any onefrom handling it unnecessarilv. The nuts of the horse-chestnut, orbuckeye, are poisonous, as are also theberries of the bittersweet, and wildbryony. Among- other poisonous plants may bementioned pokeweed, rattlebox or wildpea, spurge, snow on the mountain, thelaurels, nightshade, sneezewort, waterdropwort, and the seeds of the labur-num and the catalpa tree, and of theyellow and the rough-podded vetches.Elma Iona Locke. •.0
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THE AMERICAN WOODCOCK. (Philohela minor.) The Woodcock is the most notable ofgame birds. It is a game bird par ex-cellence. It may also be called the owlamong snipes, for it feeds during thenight hours and never flies during theday unless forced to do so by some in-truder on its domain. During the day-light hours it remains quietly in thedepths of marshy thickets or in fields ofrank grass. Its range covers the wholeof eastern North America from theBritish Provinces southward to the Gulfof Mexico. It breeds more or less com-monly throughout its range, and in thewinter passes southward only as far asthe regions of non-frozen earth. Thismigration is necessary, for the Woodcockseeks its food in the soft earth of marshygrounds and wet meadows. The W^oodcocks method of obtainingits food has given it the rather uncouthname, Bog-sucker. Its chief diet con-sists of earthworms, which are obtainedby pushing nearly or quite the wholelength of its bill into the soft earth.Whether the bird locates

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