Birds and All Nature, Vol. III, No. 3, March 1898

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Various. Birds and All Nature, Vol. III, No. 3, March 1898

SOME BIRD LOVERS

BIRD DAY

MARCH

THE BIRD'S ANSWER

WHERE MISSOURI BIRDS SPEND CHRISTMAS

THE BLACK DUCK

THE STORMY PETREL

WILSON'S PETREL

THE STORMY PETREL

THE BLUE-GRAY GNATCATCHER

THE AMERICAN COOT

THE AMERICAN COOT

INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT BIRDS

THE IVORY-BILLED WOODPECKER

THE IVORY-BILLED WOODPECKER

THE SPARROW HAWK

THE AMERICAN SPARROW HAWK

HINTS ON THE STUDY OF WINTER BIRDS

THE SILVER PHEASANT

EIDER DUCK FARMS

THE SCALED PARTRIDGE

THE MOUND BIRD

THE NEW TENANTS

SUMMARY

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THE United States Department of Agriculture issued in July, 1896, a circular suggesting that a "Bird Day" be added to the school calendar. In this circular J. Sterling Morton, Secretary of Agriculture, says:

"The cause of bird protection is one that appeals to the best side of our natures. Let us yield to the appeal. Let us have a Bird Day – a day set apart from all the other days of the year to tell the children about the birds. But we must not stop here. We should strive continually to develop and intensify the sentiment of bird protection, not alone for the sake of preserving the birds, but also for the sake of replacing as far as possible the barbaric impulses inherent in child nature by the nobler impulses and aspirations that should characterize advanced civilization."

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In the woods, the Tree-Sparrow, associating with the Snowbird, occasionally sings us a Christmas Carol – the only bird here now from which we may expect a song, unless some vernal day should loose the syrinx of the Cardinal, or provoke the "fee-bee" of the Crested Titmouse.

Christmas is on the vernal side of the winter solstice and any sunny day thereabout is more like spring than autumn.

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