Birds and nature (1900) (14568930897)

Identifier: birdsnature721900chic (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: Smithsonian Libraries



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readily with-out breaking it. If it were pulledthrough Whitneys gin there would bemore or less tearing and breaking. Sothe great invention does not apply tocleaning the very finest material. Theshort wool fibers of common cottonare not so much hurt by the saw teethand the amount of work done by thegin makes this damage of no account. At the Atlanta Cotton Exposition in1882 the old and the new were strik-ingly contrasted. The mountain peo-ple of the South, in many instances,live after the old fashions of colonialtimes. They make homespun clothwhich is a revelation to us. Some ofthese people were induced to showtheir work at the exposition, and theywere as much astonished at the apparelof their visitors who gazed upon themand their strange labor as were the vis-itors at the work and manners of themountaineers. Two carders operated hand cards,two spinsters ran the spinning-wheelsand one weaver made cloth upon ahand loom. In ten hours these fivepeople made eight yards of verv coarsecloth.
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THE CINNAMON TEAL. (Anas cyanoptera.) DAVIE says that the geographicaldistribution of this beautifulteal is western America, fromthe Columbia river south toChili, Patagonia, and Falkland Islands;east in North America to the RockyMountains; casual in the MississippiValley, and accidental in Ohio. It isabundant in the United States west ofthe Rocky Mountains, breeding in Col-orado, Utah, Nevada, California, Idaho,and Oregon. Its habits are similar tothose of the blue-wing. Its favoritebreeding-places are in fields of tallgrass or clover, not far from water.The eggs range from nine to thirteen,and the nest is so completely woven ofgrass, feathers, and down that it is saidthe entire structure may be picked up without its coming apart. OliverDavie, the well known ornithologist,says that it gave him pleasure to beable to add this beautiful duck to theavifauna of Ohio as an accidental vis-itor. On the 4th of April, 1895, afine male of this species was taken atthe Licking County reservoir by