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Title: Birds of the Bible
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Stratton-Porter, Gene, 1863-1924
Subjects: Nature in the Bible
Publisher: Cincinnati, Jennings and Graham New York, Eaton and Mains
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hich is ))urc tradition,and incredible. It is instances like these, in the case ofwhat almost might be called contemporaneous writers,that make the older historians of the Bible appear sosane and vital in what they have to say of the birds. Aristotle said cranes fought so fiercely that men mighttake thorn alive wliile engaged in a battle, and also thatmany prudent actions appear to be performed by cranes.But what these actions were, he did not state. In their chosen locations they nested on the ground,or in colonies in trees. Their nests were large heaps oftwigs and debris, and they laid two big eggs differingwith species. The white cranes laid rough, pale-blue eggshaving brown splotches on the larger end; and the brownbirds a light drab with brown sj)eckles. They were care-ful parents, though not so tender and loving as storks.They ate mice, rats, moles, and any small animal theycould capture, as well as frogs and lizards. THE OWLS / am become as an end of the zca.ste place.—David.
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STKATTO.N-POKTER HORNKD OWL There shall tlw great oicl make Iter »<-.vf. Chapter XXTHE OWLS WiiEX niolit fell over the Holy Land, and all thecountry fioni Edom and the desert of Shur to the farthestnorthward range of Lebanon, and from Syria and Arabiato the great sea, lay under its spell, the reign of the owlfamily began. When the tropical moon silvered the sandsof the desert, stretched molten paths across the seas,sailed with the current down the Jordan, and laughed ather reflected face in :\lerom and the Red Sea, the greathorned owl crept from the homes of the dead near Car-mel, from caves of robbers close to Gennesaret, from rumsaround Jericho, from fallen cities in Judea, from desertthickets, from mountain and forest fastnesses, and liftedits weird voice. Then all the little owls from Tyre to Askelon set uptheir wavering accompaniment to the beating surf of the)Mediterranean. Their com))anions of ruins, hollow trees,caves, desert thickets and forests, lakes and rivers, overpla

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