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Title: Birds and nature
Year: 1900 (1900s)
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Subjects: Birds Natural history
Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : A.W. Mumford, Publisher
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thern cousin, yetwhenever I have heard him in winterweather, there is the same silvery andjoyous tinkle of showering Chick a-dee-dee-dees from the pretty gray and black-capped flock that I have heard in Mas-sachusetts. Perhaps the variations aremore evident in his summer singing. I have left the kinglet for the last, butit is hard to do justice to this lovelylittle bird that, if the food-suppjy be allright, will often elect to stay with us inwinter rather than migrate to Mexico.His colors are exquisite, olive-greenbordered by darker tints that throw thegreen above and the yellow-tinted whitebelow into fine relief; a brilliant crownof reddish-gold, bordered by black andyellow, and every feather preened tosatiny smoothness. He gleans his foodmerrily, singing or calling softly tohimself as he works. His nest is builtin the far northern forests, sometimesswinging as high as sixty feet, andwoven of pale green mosses, lined withstrips of the silky inside back anddown for the many nestlings.
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E.lilllc piMC. Cross section Black Walnut ES. BY CUNEO BROS. COPYRIGHT 1899.NATURE STUDY PUB. CO., CHICAGO. Butter-nut in liuslv.Black Walnut. THE COCOA-NUT. THE fruit of the cocoa-nut palm,(Cocos micifera), which is themost useful tree of all its tribeto the natives of the regionsin which it grows, is one of the mostvaluable and important of commercialproducts. On the Malabar and Corvo-mandel coasts of India the trees growin vast numbers; and in Ceylon, which ispeculiarly well situated for their culti-vation, it is estimated that twenty mil-lions of the trees flourish. The wealthof a native in Ceylon is estimated byhis property in cocoa-nut trees, and SirEmerson Tennent notes a law case in adistrict court in which the subject indispute was a claim of the twenty-fifthtwentieth part of an acre of palms. Thetree is very beautiful and lofty, grow-ing to a height of from sixty to onehundred feet, with a cylindrical stemwhich attains a thickness of two feet.It terminates in a crown of grac

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