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Title: Birds and nature in natural colors : being a scientific and popular treatise on four hundred birds of the United States and Canada
Year: 1913 (1910s)
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Subjects: Birds -- North America
Publisher: Chicago : A.W. Mumford, Publisher
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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d blooms are falling On the hill:The afterglow is waning,And the whippoorwills complaining,Whip-poor-will; whip-poor-will; Wild and shrill,The whippoorwills complaining, Whip-poor-will. The moon blooms out. a great white rose: The stars wheel onward towards the westThe barnyard cock wakes once and crows: The farm is wrapped in peaceful rest:The cricket chirs: the firefly glows.The whippoorwill is calling, Whip-poor-will; whip-poor-will,Where the bramble-blooms are falling On the rill:The moon her watch is keeping.And the whippoorwill is weeping, Whip-poor-will; whip-poor-will;Lonely still.The whippoorwill is weeping,Whip-poor-will. The Skylark^^^^^^^ arvensis)By Joseph Grinnell Length: 7 inches. Range: Native of England, found in Oregon, Washington; rare on LongIsland and southeastern Ohio. Under the greenwood-tree,Who loves to lie with me,And tune his merry noteUnto the sweet birds throat;Come hither, come hither, come hither;Here shall he seeNo enemyBut winter and rough weather. 244
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In Shakespeares play, As You Like It, scene V.. Amiens, a close studentof nature, is made to sing this song. It probably caused his companion, Jaques, to remember the skylark of hisown boyhood, for he besought Amiens to sing it again. But Amiens arguedwith his friend that it would make him melancholy. However, he sang again,-and it is supposed that the two lived over the days of their boyhood, when theylay on the grass under the greenwood-tree, just on the edge of a corn-field, andlistened to the skylark tuning his merry note in his own sweet throat. Dear to the heart of English boys and other people is the skylark, on accountof which, and for the reason that Britishers of any age may like to meet an oldfriend should they chance to take up this book in their travels, we are giving achapter to this bird. In the play, Jaques and Amiens sing later together allabout their favorite lark (it is presumed) : Who loves to live i the sun, .i, Seeking the food he eatsAnd pleased with what he get

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