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Title: Gray lady and the birds; stories of the bird year for home and school
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Wright, Mabel Osgood, Mrs., 1859-
Subjects: Birds Birds
Publisher: New York, The Macmillan company
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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nds of Blackbirds, Prairie Chickens,Quail, Upland Plover, Curlew, and other birds. Thiscoincidence seems significant, at least. A farmer fromWisconsin informed me that, the Blackbirds in hisvicinity having been killed off, the white grubs increasedin number and destroyed the grass roots, so that he lostfour hundred dollars from this cause. These facts should make us of the East welcome ratherthan discourage the Redwing; for this is one of thespecies of familiar birds that must become extinct inmany localities, owing to the circumstance, so desirablein itself, of reducing the waste marshlands, and though,later in the year, other birds replace him acceptably,March and April would seem lonely without the Red-wing, for then, as the child said, youve just got tolook at him. The Kingfisher is certainly one of the most dashingThe King- birds that we have; without having the cruelfisher g^j^(^ ferocious expression of some of the smallerHawks, he has the swagger and dash of a featheredbrigand.
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BELTED KINGFISHER(Upper Figure, Female; Lower Figure, Male)Order-Coccyges Family-ALCEDiNio^ Species—Alcyon Genus—Ceryle MARCH 341 His plumage is beautiful in texture and soft in colour;bluish gray that sometimes looks quite blue in the brightlight; wings and tail-feathers spotted with white, a whitecollar deep in front and narrow at the back, and a broadbelt of the gray crossing the white breast and seemingto keep the gray mantle from slipping from his shoulders.The long head-feathers, also of the bluish gray, form acrest that the bird can raise at will and thus put on anexpression of combined alertness and defiance. The Kingfishers plumage is more perfect than hisform, his head, with its beak two inches in length, beingout of proportion to his short tail, and his small, weakfeet seeming too small to support a body more thana foot long. In disposition the Kingfisher seems to be rather re-mote and unfriendly; they never seem to travel in flocks,and even in the nesting season, the o

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