Birds and nature (1904) (14750303495)

Identifier: birdsnature151904chic (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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thewhite is twisted into a sort of rope andfastened to the inside of the shell by oneend and by the other to the yolk, so as togive and take with every position of theegg and keep the yolk in place. Dear me! said Edith, Ive oftennoticed that little rope in the white of anegg, but I never dreamed what it wasfor. The beautiful shapes and colors, andvaried markings of birds eggs make acollection of them of the greatest inter-est. Some day I will take you to see theeggs of the birds of Illinois at the StateHouse in Springfield. Wont that be jolly! cried the boysin a chorus, while the girls vainly rappedfor order. Belle Paxson Drury. THE ROBIN. Yes, there he sits in the top of the tree.The sam.e dun breast, and the dusky wing.The self-same Robin come back to seeIf daffodils blossom, and crocuses spring. And now will the gay little grasses rise,The clouds will scatter their April rain;The gray old branches will bud and bloomFor the self-same Robin, come back again. —Carolyn F. Hailey. 176
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I.ibelliila piilchclln. I.il).-llnl;i l);is;.lis.Cclillu-inis riMMiin;!. AMERICAN DRAGONFLIES. Lifo-si/e. COPYRIGHT 1904. BY A. W. MUMFORD, CHICAGO raloptcrvx (limidiata. ralopi,-rv\ ma. ulala. DRAGON-FLIES Today I saw the Dragon-fly Come from the wells where he did lie. An inner impulse rent the veil Of his old husk: from head to tail Came out clear plates of sapphire mail. He dried his wings: like gauze they grew:Through crofts and pastures wet with dewA living flash of light he flew. —Alfred Tennyson. In April the larvae of the Dragon-flies begin to crawl forth from theirdark, muddy haunts on the bed of thebrook and the edges of the pond. Herethey have lived for a year, perhaps more,creeping about in the slime at the rootsof the water weeds, seizing and devour-ing the snails, tadpoles and minnows.All the acquatic insects that come withinreach of their sharp-pointed claws fallvictims to the insatiable hunger of thelarvae. They are very slow-movingcreatures in this stage of their l