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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 Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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The holes of the Tiger Beetle larvaeare always open when found, the larvaebeing frightened away by the approachof the observer. But sit down nearthem, and watch quietly, and soon theywill be plugged by dirt-colored heads.Each passer-by will cause the cautiouslarvae to retreat; but they will return ina few minutes to their position of patientwatchfulness, and here they wait like astill fisherman on a log. Alvin M. Hendee. THE BIRDS WILL LIVE. Should Natures blithsome song-birds be withdrawnFrom jolly earth and those whose listening ears Drink every carol sung from early dawn.Life would be cold or on the verge of tears. But no! when birds are fled, earth has no green; Her flowers are fathoms deeply covered oer;Her sun has slunk behind some dungeon screen; Her human lives and souls are then no more. Sweet liquid warblers of the swaying bough.There is no loss of thee while man may hear; Thy song will soothing be to many a browIn Gods long centuries of hope and cheer. —Willis Edwin Hurd.
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35 AMl.KUAN KKl) CKO^SIULL(Loxia ciirvirosira iniiur). ;; Li(e-si/r. THE AMERICAN RED CROSSBILL. (Loxia curvirostra 7ninor.) Dr. Thomas )^I. Brewer has said ofthese birds: These Crossbills are ex-tremely gentle and social, are easily ap-proached, caught in traps, and evenknocked down with-sticks. The Amer-ican Crossbill ranges over the northernportion of X^orth America, breeding fromthe northern portion of the UnitedStates northward, and in the AlleghanyMountains southward to the Carolinas.Its winter wanderings are very irreg-ular, even reaching the vicinity of theGulf of Mexico. There are few birdswhich are so erratic and uncertain intheir migrations, and, at first appearance,so clumsily constructed as regards theshape of their bills. The creation ofsuch a bill by the Almighty w^as evenderided by the naturalist, Bufifon, whowas a Deist and who had not noticedthe perfect adaptation to an end repre-sented by the bill of the Crossbill. Un-less the habits of this bird are studied inthe f

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