Identifier: birdsnature91901chic (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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re taken fromDutch Guiana to Holland, where they be-came thoroughly domesticated, breedingas readily as any other kind of domesticpoultry. Though a tropical bird, it woulds-eem that they might be acclimatized.They would certainly form a valuable ad-dition to the list of our farm fowls, fortheir flesh is said to be exceedingly whiteand delicate. The female is not as large as the maleand is usually reddish in color. Theirfood consists almost entirely of fruit andinsects. About the middle of the eighteenth cen-tury Eleazar Albin wrote A NaturalHistory of Birds, in which he gives avery interesting account of the Curassowand an excellent illustration of the bird.He says : I took a pourtray of this birdat Chelmsford in Essex; it was very tameand sociable, eating and drinking withany company. The Cock I had of a manfrom the West Indies. They are gen-erally brought from Carasow, fromwhence they take their Name. They arecalled by the Indians Tecuecholi, Moun-tain-Bird or American Pheasant. 146
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FROM COL. CHI. ACAO. SCIENCES. CRESTED CURASSOW. (Crax globicera.) 1 5 Life-size. fOPVRGHT 1901, BYW. MUMFORO, CHICAGO. SOME NOTABLE NESTS. The Clymer boys and girls, of Clover-dale, New England, belonged to a BirdClub ; they were proposed to membershipby their neighbors, the Walkers; in fact,the two families composed the club, andit partook of the nature of a secret so-ciety. All this was before the young peopleof Cloverdale knew of Clark University,and Dr. Hodges Ten to One Clubs,wherein the members pledged themselvesto strive by all imaginable means—pro-vided they were also practical—to induceten song birds to live and sing each year,where only one was found the year be-fore. It was not necessary for the CloverdaleClub to put up carefully constructed andartistic bird houses, or to hang cottonand the like fine nest-building materialsin choicest ornamental shade trees—notat all. The English Sparrow had not foundthe village in those days; the song birdswere there, they knew all

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