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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hem with the loose lining ofher abode. There was a limitless areaof low prairie stretching out on all sidesfrom the nest, and knowing it would beimpossible for me to again find the spot,I prepared to pack the four eggs in mycase with regret that I could not waitfor a larger clutch. Before leaving the locality the parentbird was upon the scene and passed meseveral times on swift wing, uttering hernasal notes of distress. I proceeded on my arrival at campthat eve to blow the contents of the fourwater fowls eggs into the frying pan.This may not appeal to the readers ofthis article as an appetizing morsel, but Iassure you that the scrambled eggs wereeaten with a relish equal to that experi-enced by the epicurean who partakes ofa roasted Canvas-back, taken from thefamous wild celery beds of ChesapeakeBay, Maryland. In Northwest Canada, the Canvas-backnests abundantly during June, when itdeposits from seven to twelve deep ashygreen colored eggs, elliptical in shape. r.lf) \ > 5 1-1 I 5-^
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Their average size is 2.40 inches longby 1.70 inches wide. Incubated eggs ofthis species, hke the eggs of other north-ern ducks, are usually surrounded by aquantity of down, plucked from thefemales breast. The down of the Can-vas-back is much darker than that of the redhead, the latter having a grayishwhite down and the Canvas-backs beingslaty gray or mouse color. A single nest is frequently found con-taining eggs from each of the aboveducks, but seldom more than one speciesassists in hatching the eggs. Gerard Alan Abbott. THE JIG TREE. Theres a tree that the Germans call poppel(It really ought to be hoppel). For when summer launches Her breeze in the branchesThe leaves wont keep still, not a minute.I suppose there is lots of fun in it.For they take to prancing and reeling and dancingWhen breezes forget to begin it. It isnt a big tree, I call it a jig tree—A happy-go-lucky jig tree. When spring on old winter is gaining,Then poppel tree just sets to raining. From buds brown and shini

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