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Title: Birds and nature in natural colors.
Year: 1913 (1910s)
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Subjects: Birds
Publisher: Chicago : A.W. Mumford, Publisher
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
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It isso frequently seen among the saw-palmettos that it is often called the PalmettoChewink or Towhee. The call note of the White-eyed Towhee sounds much like the syllables jo-reewith the accentuation on the last syllable. Regarding its song, Mr. J. C. May-nard says that it does not sing in winter, but by the first of March the malesmay be seen on the highest boughs of the small live oaks, pouring forth theirsong, which is lower and sweeter than that of the red-eye. This outburst of songis the prelude to the breeding season, and soon the birds are busily engaged inconstructing their nests. Mr. Oliver Davie says that the White-eyed Towhee has been found breedingas far north as South Carolina. Its nest consists of coarse weeds, pine needlesand grass and is lined with finer grasses. It seems to nest both in pine trees, atheights from three to fifteen feet above the ground, and in the dense clumps ofsaw-palmettos. It has also been stated that the nest is sometimes built on theground. 760
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The Spirit of Nature Study By Harry Edward Miller By what twist of the mentality a multitude has come to misinterpret, tomisunderstand, the spirit of nature study, and all that a fair acquaintance withnature means to humanity, is something almost incomprehensible to those whohave ever felt an abiding, a steadfast friendship for the out-of-doors. It isbeyond doubt true, a mob of mistaken men are persuaded that the study ofnature is solely a fad, an occupation unworthy of the serious life; hence theywill have nothing of it; hence their scoffing at those who Hsten devotedly to thevoices of nature. No lover of the out-door world need reflect at length beforehe realizes that it is his critics, not himself, who are poor and deficient; it isthose who scorn the ways of nature and the ardor of natures devotees, thesincere ardor we always mean, who are the little, narrow-minded men withshrimpish souls, so that we wonder by what audacity they walk beneath th6 skiesstrewn with the mysteries of th

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