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Identifier: birdsnature161904chic (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 Institution Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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es. Beside this, hecan imitate the cry of a hawk to perfec-tion, and occasionally does so, perhapsfor the fun of seeing the smaller birdshunt cover. He is a great tease, andseems to have no sort of use for thescreech owl, and the tirade he carries onwhen he finds the latter bird snug in ahollow tree, is a vocal performance nearlyeveryone can recognize at once. Besidesthe calls enumerated the bird has manymore, and when the bird-student hears anew voice in the woodland that he hasnever heard before, particularly if thevoice is not musical, he will for a dozentimes or so edge noiselessly toward thesound, his heart palpitating, and everysense alert for the glimpse of some newrare bird. After that he will simplymake note of another Jay. It may bethat this general knowledge of the birdsrange of noises, rather than actual expe-rience, has given rise to the opinionthat if a Jays tongue is split he can learnto talk. Perhaps, too, it is because theJay is with us all the year, without being 191
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