Identifier: birdsnature21905chic (find matches)
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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ring the delicatemorsel to the one who sent them. The Tree ceased speaking, and Mabelsat watching the swollen waters of thecreek, hurrying past to join the river.Spring was here once more, glad, beau-tiful spring, with its balmy airs, itsbursting buds and springing grass, itsfeathered songsters and myriads of in-sect life. She felt glad that the long,cold winter was past, that the gladsomeoutdoor life had come again, and shelooked forward to a summer of keenenjoyment. A gentle breeze playedwith the branches, and brought to herears these words: St. Francis, that great and good manwho believed that trees had souls, lovedall the birds and beasts and trees. Hecalled the larks his sisters, and desiredthe beasts to be well fed; the wolf, ac-cording to legendary lore, put his pawin his hand and promised to eat no moresheep; the birds were silent when hepreached; a falcon awoke him at hisliour of prayer. He overcame all by hislove, his gentleness, and so, sweet maid,can you. Evelyn Singer. 20
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THE LOGGERHEAD SHRIKE. (Lanius ludovicianus.) In the Loggerhead Shrike nature hasproduced a curious and puzzHng com-bination of avian characteristics. Thebill and head are of the falcon type,the mouth is ornamented with bristleslike the flycatchers, the feet are thoseof the song birds and the food habitsare those of the hawk. What wonderis it that ornithologists have been puz-zled to know just where to place thesestrange creatures in the nomenclatureof the birds. The name of Butcher Bird is givento the Shrikes on account of their habitof impaling their prey upon thorns, alocality near a nest looking, as ex-pressed by one writer, like a butchersrack filled with meat. They are prob-ably compelled to resort to this methodon account of the weakness of theirfeet, which do not enable them to holdtheir prey as do the powerful feet ofbirds of prey. The Loggerhead Shrikemay be justly called a bird of prey,being, in fact, fully as predaceous as anyof the hawks or owls. Its food is varied,rangin

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