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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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chcircumstances, when alarmed by a gun the flock is apt to betake itself to thenearest trees and sit motionless on the branches, evidently believing themselvesto be invisible. The term fool hen, by which they are known, rather aptlydescribes their conduct and demeanor on such occasions. Even the fool hen,however, can profit by experience, and the lesson of caution once learned, it isas shy as it previously was tame. Its flesh is delicious eating and the mountaincamper rarely loses an opportunity to feast on it. In spring the loud and sonor-ous hooting of the grouse coming from some giant pine in ravine and cafion, andcan be beared for long distances, and has such marked ventriloquial effect thatit is difficult to locate the boomer or to tell whether he is far away or close athand. This is the largest grouse in the United States, with one exception—the sagecock. It is much larger than the ruffed grouse, but quite like it in some of itshabits and tastes. The male is a lazy father. 346
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Where the Black Tern Builds By Edward B. Clark The little vilage of Worth lies just beyond the smoke of factory-filledChicago. It is on the marshes of Worth that the black terns build their nests; itis in the thorn thickets that hedge the pastures that the loggerhead shrikes maketheir homes; the rails, the redwings, and the wrens haunt the reedy swamps;and the hawks and the crows live in the heavy timber. Outside of a race-trackand the many birds that flock in its fields. Worth has few attractions to offer.The race-track draws thousands of people daily for a short season, but the birdsvisitors are few. In no other place, perhaps, so near the great city, could theblack terns nest in peace. Certain it is that Worth is the only place readilyaccessible to the city bird-student where these soft-breasted birds of the seamay be found during the season of courtship and housekeeping. Black terns areabundant in the shop windows and upon the hats of thoughtless women. Theshop birds and the bonne

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