Birds and nature (1903) (14750419282)

Identifier: birdsnature131903chic (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: Biodiversity Heritage Library



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red hunters fromfar and wide. Armed with all kinds ofguns and accompanied by numerousnondescript dogs, they surrounded theasylum of the wild. Then the fatal drivecommenced. Rabbits and foxes, coonsiiud possums dashed forth, but they weregiven little heed. Every eye watched forlilack Beard and every gun was loadedwith turkey-shot, save now and then onein the hands of an inveterate deer-hun-ter. For hours the drive continued, thecircle growing smaller and smaller. Yetthe old turkey had not appeared. Hadhe outwitted them, after all? Had heflown that red gauntlet of fire and soughtother woods? No; it could not be. Suddenly there was a shout and everyeve was strained, every gun uplifted ineager hands. Then grandly, as he haddone in the olden days. Black Beardrose up. up—and for a moment the morn-ing sunlight flashed on his glossy coat;then a scattering volley flamed forth andhe circled and fell back—to the soil hehad loved—kingly and splendid even to the end. John Jordan Douglass. 210
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FROM COL. CHI. ACAO. SCIENCES. 572 COfTNlOHT 1S03, BV A. W. MUMFORO, CHICbO. IMPEYAN PHEASANT. (Lophophorus impeyanus). ,6 Life-size. THE IMPEYAN PHEASANT. (Lophophorus impeyanus.) This beautiful bird which is noted forthe wonderful color and metallic irides-cence of the males plumage, is a nativeof the higher and colder regions of In-dia. It is greatly admired by the nativesof India, who have given it the nameMonal or the bird of gold. The metal-lic luster of its plumage is so verymarked that some authorities have beenled to give this bird the specific nameresplendens. The plumage of the malesof nearly all the pheasants is quite asstrikingly brilliant, while that of the fe-male is much more somber. Writing of this pheasant as it is foundin its forest home in the Himalayas, Mr.Wilson says: The Monal is found onalmost every hill of any elevation, fromthe first great ridge above the plains to the limits of forest, and in the interior,it is the most abundant of our gamebirds. And another