Birds and nature (1905) (14568987328)

Identifier: birdsnature21905chic (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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marauders; in the other, the type ofgentleness. And so it seems that oneshome, hke his life, is what he makes it.The same love that lived in the yellow-throats breast and nursed her wee eggsinto Hfe, soothed the fiery spirit andcruel nature of these unquiet warriorsand made their home an ideal of devo-tion and happiness. Before descending the tree, I droppeda weighted line to the ground to ascer-tain how high it was. It was just sixty-five feet to where the eggs rested, andthe camera was, of course, considerablyabove this. I intended to return to thenest after the eggs were hatched andget a picture of the young birds, butbusiness, that interrupter of pleasures,hindered me and I was obliged to leavehome before I had another opportunityof visiting the nest. I suppose it stillrests there in that massive hemlock aspeacefully as it did when I left it, thatmorning when the crows were nestingin the pines, and the warblers calling inthe thicket below, all the day long.Wai.ter E. Burn ham. 188
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From col. F. M. W<,.,<lr.iff.107 YLLLOW-BILLKD I KOPIC HIKIJ. (IliactL-im llavirostiis.) 1-4 l,il<--si/.c. A. W. Muinfonl, Chicago. THE YELLOW-BILLED TROPIC BIRD. ( Ph aeth on fiavirostris.) The interesting and beautiful Yellow-billed Tropic Birds frequent the seacoasts of tropical regions, and to someextent the coasts of subtropical regions.In America, their range includes thetropical coasts, the West Indies, theBahamas and the Bermudas. They areoccasionally seen on the coasts of Flor-ida and have been reported as an acci-dental visitant in western New Yorkand in Nova Scotia. These birds arecalled Boatswains by sailors, and theyoften follow in the wake of vessels sail-ing in tropical seas, for many miles. Be-cause of their tendency to follow thepath of the sun, Linnaeus gave them thefanciful generic name Phaethon, de-rived from a Greek word meaning toshine, and in mythology the word wasthe name of the son of Helios (theSun) who insisted on driving hisfathers chariot, and by