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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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strain, cherwee-cher-wee-cherwee-iddle-iddle-iddle ee, as the sun goes down. The three birds that are the most noticeable in thelatter part of March, that has made up its mind to goout like a lamb and let Pussy-willow wave in peace inmoist pasture and the delicate blue-and-white hepaticasstar the edges of dry woods, are the Redwing Black-birds, the Kingfishers, and the cheerful little Phoebe.All love the vicinity of water, but the Redwing locates oftenin merely marshy ground, while the bird who is a fisher-man by trade locates near a pond or stream of consid-erable size and the Phoebe comes to house or woodshed. Among all the birds that return to us in late MarchThe Red- or April, which is the most striking and mostwing compels attention? asked a bird-lover of a group of kindred spirits. The Fox Sparrow, said one, who lived on the edgeof a village where sheltered wild fields stretched uphillto the woodlands. Every morning when I open mywindow I can hear them almost without listening.
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Jia^fft^ t-toiisFAti- RED-WINGED BLACKBIRD (Upper Figure, Male; Lower Figure. Female) Order—Passeres Family — IcTSRiDyt Genus—Agelaius Species—Phceniceus MARCH 335 The Phoebe/ said another, who was the owner ofa pretty home, where many rambhng sheds broke theway from cow-barn to pasture. The Whip-poor-will, but that does not come untillate in the month, answered a third, a dweller in a remotecolony of artists in a picturesque spot of cleared wood-land, where the ground dropped quickly to a stream. No, the Woodcock, said her nearest neighbour,a man whose cottage was upon the upper edge of thesesame woods, where they were margined by moist meadowsand soft bottom-lands, — a man who spent much timeout-of-doors at dawn and twilight studying sky effects. And I think its Redwinged Blackbirds, cried theten-year-old son of the latter; for when I go out upback of the trout brook by the little path along thealders near the squashy place where the cat-tails growin summer, youve just got

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