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id: 25874
title: Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography, Vol. 1, No. 4 April, 1897
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  BIRDS ILLUSTRATED BY COLOR PHOTOGRAPHY XVIII.--Fastidious Nesting Habits of a few Birds. Three of the four parent birds sitting on the nests Do you know of any other birds who build their nests so early? Smith''s Painted Longspur is usually considered a rare bird in the middle breeding far north, where it has a thick, fur-lined, grass nest, set in The nest is formed of pine twigs, lined with feathers, soft grass, and BIRD DAY IN THE SCHOOLS. Bird day has already proved a great success in two cities of the United year, and have observed but one BIRD DAY, results similar to those Some of the other birds like acorns too--but I think they should find nest; to see their food laid before them by the old birds; or to witness will forsake her nest when building it, sooner than any other bird known


id: 25983
title: Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography, Vol. 1, No. 5 May, 1897
author: Various
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  XVIII.--Fastidious Nesting Habits of a few Birds. holiday, to be known as Bird Day. Three cities have already adopted the Of all animated nature, birds are the most beautiful in coloring, most But nesting-time with the birds is one of sentiment as well as of The birds nest in low lands near the sea shore, in the barrens, and on A saucy little bird, so active and familiar, the Black-Capped Chickadee, Quite a long name for such small birds--don''t you think so? Night Hawks are sociable birds, especially on the wing, and seem to A Wood Thrush''s nest is very much like a Robin''s. years watching and studying birds. Price $2.50, or six subscriptions to "Birds." Price $3.50, given for eight subscriptions to "Birds." Price $3.50, given for eight subscriptions to "Birds." interested in Bird Day should have one of these books. [Illustration: $5.00, or Nine Subscriptions for "Birds"]


id: 30103
title: Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography, Vol. 1, No. 3 March 1897
author: Various
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  The Blue Bird rears two broods in the season, and, should the weather One spring a pair of Blue Birds looked into the tenement, A pair of Swallows on arriving at their nesting place of the preceding Summer found their nest occupied by a Sparrow, who kept the poor birds The Flicker begins to build its nest about two weeks after the bird Mr. and Mrs. Bobolink build their simple little nest of grasses in some is a plunderer of other birds'' nests. The nest of the Crow is placed in some tree remote from habitations of the Crow, at that time a bird of light plumage, who, when he saw the The bird figured in the plate had placed its nest on the After a few days I shall have some little baby birds, and While the young are still in the nest, the parent birds


id: 30221
title: Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography, Vol. 1, No. 1 January, 1897
author: Various
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  Of all animated nature, birds are the most beautiful in coloring, most in the homes these beautiful photographs of birds. I used to live in the woods where there were many birds like me. don''t fly around much, but sit on a limb of a tree way up high. I have web feet, but I perch like other birds on the branches of the "A more magnificently clothed bird," says Wood, "than the male Chinese undergo before the male bird attains his full beauty of color. Then it sounds like two birds singing. the male and female birds together, though I have seen both sexes in their great beauty, were called the Birds of Paradise, retaining, it was Beautiful birds--that ye come not as well? This beautiful bird feeds on fruits and insects, and its nest is I have just seen the January number of "Birds," illustrated by color


id: 30523
title: Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography, Vol. 2, No. 1 July 1897
author: Various
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  names, such as White-headed Eagle, Bird of Washington, Sea Eagle. This mighty bird usually places his large nest in some tall tree. Young eagles are queer looking birds. the White-headed Eagle, the American Sea Eagle, the Bird of Washington, The American Ring Plover nests as far north as Labrador, and is common The father bird usually feeds her while she sits on the eggs. Among plovers, the father bird usually hatches the young, and lets the Early in spring the male and female seek a nesting place, building on The cinnamon color on the head and neck of this bird varies with the A great many people think that this is the most beautiful bird of North If the nest is not far from the ground, the mother bird lets them drop If the nest be directly over the water, the little birds as soon NEST--Of grasses, on the ground, usually near the water.


id: 30965
title: Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography, Vol. 2, No. 6 December, 1897
author: Various
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  Then the folks who like birds with fine feathers, and worry a bird four times its size, and I expect you have seen a little The male bird is known to resort at the beginning of the nesting season prepare their nests, lay their eggs, hatch them, and bring up the young. grounds where the birds had nested the previous year and their The birds nest in June. On the nest the birds sit with their structure for a nest--large and bulky, and a marvel of bird I look something like the Crow in the March number of BIRDS, don''t I? Yes, we build our nest as other birds do; ours is not a dainty affair; like the ordinary bird, but imitates the Crow in his stately walk, says The bird likes a the difference between you and a bird like me, you see.


id: 30626
title: Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography, Vol. 1, No. 2 February, 1897
author: Various
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  of eggs and young birds. Perhaps no bird in North America is more universally known than the Red his nest, feeding upon the young, and remaining for days in possession. of the bird, for I used every time I saw it to cheer it up a bit by Cat-bird or the Brown Thrush--I think I shall ask them to have their I shall be about the first bird to visit you next month and I want you Like most birds of brilliant plumage, the Kingfisher prefers a quiet "I will sing like this bird with the mud colored back THE RED WING BLACK BIRD. [Illustration: RED-WING BLACK BIRD.] THE AMERICAN RED BIRD. Early in May the Red Bird begins to prepare his nest, which is very A pair of Red Birds in THE RED BIRD. Chicago, Ill. Dear Sir: I am very much obliged for the copy of "Birds" that has just


id: 30511
title: Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography, Vol. 2, No. 3 September 1897
author: Various
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  "Some birds are poets and sing all summer," says Thoreau. the Ruby-throated Humming Bird, cannot sing at all, uttering only a "Back and forth across the garden the little yellow birds were flitting, Mrs. Wright says these beautiful birds come like whirling leaves, half The Yellow-bird builds in bushes, and the nest is a wonderful example of found in the Yellow-bird''s nest, but this Warbler builds a floor over A pair of Summer Yellow-birds, we are told, had built their nest in birds can be heard singing nearly everywhere the whole year round, Wren is so small a bird he cannot sing much of a song, but he can. near-by presence of the merry House Wren, which sings its sweet little some Snow-birds and Tree Sparrows, and seemed to be trying to make these These wonderfully dainty little birds are of great value to the farmer harmless song bird or destroy our nests or our eggs.


id: 30552
title: Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography, Vol. 2, No. 4 October, 1897
author: Various
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  nest in bushes or small trees a few feet above the ground. Merriam found a pair of these birds nesting in a grove of large white nests are placed high in hemlocks or pines, which are the bird''s "How I should like to peep into their nest," said Bobbie; "just to likes to make its nest near the end of a horizontal branch, so that as large as little birds, the village boy had seen. that covered the rocks the bird imbedded its nest, composed of fine Many wild birds run up and down trees, and it seems to make little People think I am not a happy bird, because my song seems so sad. the common Pewee, or Phoebe bird, though a little observation is "Well," said Bobbie, after a while, "if those little soft white birds Arctic regions are its nesting place however, and these birds were


id: 30666
title: Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography, Vol. 1, No. 6 June, 1897
author: Various
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  have a new holiday, to be known as Bird Day. Three cities have already Of course, Bird Day will differ from its successful Of all animated nature, birds are the most beautiful in coloring, most As men love light, the song of happy birds." Little Mocking Birds look very much like the young of other Thrushes, The food of the Night Heron, or Qua-Bird, is chiefly fish, and his two Like human builders, the bird improves in nest building by practice, "Golden Robin," "Fire Bird," "Hang-nest." I could tell you how he came Like the Hawk Owl, it is a day-flying bird, and is a terrible foe The wing feathers of the owl are different from those of most birds. Both birds work in building the nest, and both share in caring for the Bird Day in the Schools " 129-138 [Illustration: $5.00, or Nine Subscriptions for "Birds"]


id: 30677
title: Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography, Vol. 2, No. 5 November 1897
author: Various
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  the parrot Mignonne,) the man of the woods probably thought the bird disposition, who were more fond of going in search of bird''s nests, to study birds and their habits as I traveled through the beautiful, the This specimen is also called the Summer Red-bird or Rose Tanager, and is The nesting season of this charming bird extends to the latter part of This small plover-like bird is found on the sea-coasts of nearly all nests, for which he made diligent search, although the birds were It is a bird of the wood, everywhere associated with the beautiful tall These species compose the small but distinct family of tropic birds and The people who make a study of birds say that I look like a large Tern, the nest is said to be made of the fish bones ejected by the bird, while into nests and count the eggs, when the mother bird is away.


id: 26656
title: Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography, Vol. 2, No. 2 August, 1897
author: Various
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  very considerable portion of the common birds of North America, and language, and, in fact, the varying notes of every species of bird He looks much like the Eagle in July "BIRDS." The The Osprey builds his nest much like the Bald Eagle. birds might return another season, as the nest looked as if it might Although this bird is called the Kentucky Warbler, we must not think "Nests and Eggs of North American Birds," and the Kentucky Warbler is near the ground, making its artfully concealed nest among the low Like our Meadow Lark, the Skylark builds her nest on the ground--never Then, too, the color of the nest is much like that of the ground. The female Lark, says Dixon, like all ground birds, is a very close NEST--Of leaves, grasses, mosses, etc., lined with down, on the ground NEST--Placed on the ground, sometimes without any lining.


id: 38315
title: Artistic Anatomy of Animals
author: Cuyer, Édouard
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  THE LEFT ILIAC BONE OF THE HUMAN BEING: EXTERNAL SURFACE, LEFT ILIAC BONE OF A QUADRUPED (HORSE): EXTERNAL SURFACE 79 TARSUS OF THE HORSE: LEFT POSTERIOR LIMB, ANTERIOR SURFACE 104 MYOLOGY OF THE HORSE: LEFT ANTERIOR LIMB, EXTERNAL ASPECT 182 LEFT ANTERIOR LIMB OF THE HORSE: EXTERNAL ASPECT 196 LEFT ANTERIOR LIMB OF THE HORSE: EXTERNAL ASPECT 196 THIRD PHALANX OF THE HORSE: LEFT ANTERIOR LIMB, EXTERNAL surface of this bone, which is anterior, corresponds to the posterior posterior surface of a muscle of this region (see Figs. inferior extremity of each metacarpal bone presents the form of a situated on the anterior surface of the superior extremity, separates developed--forms a prominence which, placed on the external surface of The anterior portion (sterno-humeral muscle)--thick, forming an phalanges_, this muscle is situated external to and behind the anterior situated in the posterior region of the external surface of the forearm,


id: 34165
author: Various
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  "I reckon he stops at noon time," said Bobbie, "as other birds do." "One lady who makes a study of birds thinks he says, ''_I know it! From morning till night this cheery bird sings as he works, from May to The nest of the Red-eye is built in a horizontal branch of a tree, presented by these birds in flight, cloud-like in form and apparently "I think," said Bobbie, looking over the present number of BIRDS, only in the night time, like some Owls I know, but you will see me about America and you won''t find a bird that looks like me. It is in a state of nature that the birds are kind to animals, to spare in spring-time the mother-bird with its nest "Do you know," said Mrs. Wren, placing a particularly fine feather in

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  Birds Illustrated by Color Photography, Vol. 3, No. 1 [January, 1898] A Monthly Serial designed to Promote Knowledge of Bird-Life


id: 34294
author: Various
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  birds treated by White, most of them exhaustively; the beech tree, the Looking at the little tree with its nest and little birds interesting little bird, of quiet, retiring habits. Tortoise-shell Bird and Minute Bittern, and in many localities Little "Yes, that''s what it says here, the American Widgeon, a game bird, you Cooke says it breeds chiefly in the north, but is known to nest in I know a bird that is called the Red-eyed Vireo, because his eyes are The birds are very much attached to their nests. twenty-five species--is likely to be brought together in BIRDS for the Mr. Goss says that the natural home of this sprightly little Owl is These birds nest in old deserted squirrel or Woodpecker holes and small "There he is," cried Pierre, as Mrs. Wren left her nest and flew over robbing our nest of its one little egg."

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  Birds Illustrated by Color Photography, Vol. 3, No. 2 [February, 1898] A Monthly Serial designed to Promote Knowledge of Bird-Life


id: 47280
title: Birds Illustrated by Color Photography, Vol. 3, No. 5
author: Various
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  marking off rooms instead of measures, and putting one or more bird eggs WHEN one knows six birds by sight or sound, it has been said, he is lost. Books on birds, continues the _Boston Evening Transcript_, like good wine, You have heard so much about the mother-bird sitting on the nest, that I am The nests of these birds--when placed on dry, sandy land--are slight flitting among the trees, but was a useful bird, born to be "done brown" "O little bird of restless wing, This solitary and wary bird is usually seen standing in shallow water, Six little birds lie in a nest; The mother bird broods them with her wings, "Or a collector might come along," said Mrs. Wren, "and carry off eggs, in the nest instantly, do you hear me!" and little Mrs. Wren would stand on hand, for insthance, and the wings ov this little bird!


id: 47326
title: Birds Illustrated by Color Photography, Vol. 3, No. 4.
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  the birds sleep, build their nests and gather during the rains which we "We have hollow trees in which the birds of the Parrot family set up When the second invoice of birds arrived it was late in the season, and Mr. Frank Dekum caused a very large aviary to be built near his residence where The _happy birds of memory_ are singing clear and sweet. this birds'' love song in its fullest power, visit the deep woods in the good many birds may be seen and heard near the middle of March. The Nightingale is usually regarded as an English bird, and it is abundant SPECIMENS of this bird when seen for the first time always excite wonder and "Judas-bird." In general appearance it looks like the European House LET US ALL PROTECT THE EGGS OF THE BIRDS. "Little Field Lark," and "Judas-bird."


id: 47649
title: Birds Illustrated by Color Photography, Vol. 3, No. 6, June 1898
author: Various
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  nests filled with Wren eggs are frequent finds in odd places around the I''m not a showy looking bird like my friend the Woodpecker, but my habits brown-streaked little fellow, resembling a Wren, traveling up a tree in Like the Woodpecker, I prefer a hole in a tree in which to build my nest, The Brown Creeper nests in early summer, when insect life is most abundant, "Well," said Mr. Wren one day, "the children are old enough now to take "I''d like to know, Mr. Wren, what you had to do with building the nest, I would, really! "That sounds like our Dorothy''s voice," said Mrs. Wren, her little knees of little ones, while above, on a limb of a tree, perched Mr. and Mrs. Jay, the spring flight and thousands of birds nested there. NEST--In holes of trees lined with dry grass, moss, and feathers.


