Bird lore (1914) (14569071569) - Public domain zoological illustration

Identifier: birdlore161914nati (find matches)
Title: Bird lore
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: National Committee of the Audubon Societies of America National Association of Audubon Societies for the Protection of Wild Birds and Animals National Audubon Society
Subjects: Birds Birds Ornithology
Publisher: New York City : Macmillan Co.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library



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ure is the mother of all forms of life. In preceding exercises, much has been said about the necessity of food, notonly for birds but, also for all other living creatures. We have tried to dis-cover some of the ways in which birds get food, as well as some of the placeswhere they find it. But, if food-getting alone were the chief end of life, therewould soon be no life at all upon the earth; because in a short span of years,months, or even days, any single creature must live out its allotted time and 2o6 Bird - Lore die. Some other law must go with the law of food-getting and this, we find isthe law of reproduction,—that is producing again creatures to take the placeof those which die. This law is without doubt the most wonderful law we knowof, and since reproduction is a long, cumbersome word, we may call it simply,the law of life. Man has endeavored by his inventive skill, to duplicate some of the laws ofNature, as, for example, by means of the camera to reproduce a likeness of an
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MANUAL TRAINING WORKA few of the i.-ia Wren houses made by the boys in manual training classes. All of these houses wereput up and over half have occupants.—H. P. Brown, Instructor, Berwyn, 111. 1913- object; but this is very far removed from the real law of life. A photograph,although a perfect and exact reproduction of its kind, has no power to makeeither another photograph or another object similar to the one of which it is acopy. In Nature, the law of life demands that each living creature b? endowedwith power to give life tQ another creature like itself. The Audubon Societies • 207 You may pick up a seed carelessly, and toss it away without thought ofwhat is packed so compactly and securely in its close-fitting coats; and yetthat tiny seed contains something more wonderful and more lasting than aniron-clad warship, for it has the power to live and to grow and to leave otherseeds possessed of life-giving power when it shall have gone through its ownbrief life-history. So, when