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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
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Institution Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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coloris usually a very rich cadmium orangeand the bill is shorter and deeper throughthe base. This variety is said to havefrequented the rice fields and fig trees insouthern Louisiana. So perfectly did thedescription of these Louisiana specimensagree with the characteristics of theGular Oriole that at least one authorityhas given the habitat of the latter speciesas including Louisiana. However, it matters little whether thisOriole passes into the United States ornot. It is a bird of tropical regions,where its brilliant plumage is greatlyenhanced by the wonderful greens of thetropical foliage. THERE IS A SPIRIT IN THE WOODS. A pattering down from branch to bough Of acorn spilled from chiseled urn;A sudden rustle then and now As hanging dead leaves sway and turn;A ghostly chatter from the oak; An unsprung twig in yon thick bush;A distant mocking, omened croak:— And then the forests solemn hush. As walk we here in sentient moodsWe feel a Spirit in the Woods. —Charles Elmer Jenney 170
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10 GOLDEN ORIOLE. (Icterus pularis gularis). Life-size. COPYR.GHT 1900, BY A. W. MUMFORO, CHICAGO. THE AUNT JANE STORIES. IX. SOME CURIOUS ANIMALS.PART I. The family at Woodland was in a stateof excitement. Sixty young, springchickens had been killed in one night,although housed in a room where it wasthought not even a good-sized rat couldenter. Howard and John made a thorough ex-amination of the chicken-house and atlast discovered one small hole. They ranto the house to tell Aunt Jane that shemust relinquish her theory that a Weaselhad caused the trouble, as it would be im-possible for a Weasel to enter through sosmall a hole. But Aunt Jane continued toinsist that, as the blood of the chickenshad been sucked, and the chickens fleshunharmed, a Weasel was certainly themurderer, and she fortified her argu-ment with the remark: You know, boys,a Weasel can go through a hole smallerthan itself. Smaller than itself! cried the boys inastonishment, we dont know any suchthing. It can. It contr

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