Birds and All Nature, Vol. IV, No. 5, November 1898

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Various. Birds and All Nature, Vol. IV, No. 5, November 1898

NATURE'S ORCHESTRA

A LITTLE BIRD

THE TURKEY'S FAREWELL

BIRDS

BIRDS IN STORMS

THE SLEEPING-PLACES OF BIRDS

THE SHARP-TAILED GROUSE

TAME BATS

RED AND BLACK BATS

THE OTTER

THE AMERICAN OTTER

THE SKYLARK

NATURE STUDY AND NATURE'S RIGHT

AMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVER

CAN ANIMALS COUNT?

BUTTERFLIES LOVE TO DRINK

THE ENVIOUS WREN

THE CANADIAN PORCUPINE

THE DEATH OF THE FLOWERS

THE CASPIAN TERN

THE FLOWERING ALMOND

COLOR PHOTOGRAPHS AND CONVERSATION LESSONS

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THE BIRD is little more than a drift of the air brought into form by plumes; the air is in all its quills, it breathes through its whole frame and flesh, and glows with air in its flying, like a blown flame; it rests upon the air, subdues it, surpasses it, outraces it —is the air, conscious of itself, conquering itself, ruling itself.

Also, into the throat of the Bird is given the voice of the air. All that in the wind itself is weak, wild, useless in sweetness, is knit together in its song. As we may imagine the wild form of the cloud closed into the perfect form of the Bird's wings, so the wild voice of the cloud into its ordered and commanded voice; unwearied, rippling through the clear heaven in its gladness, interpreting all intense passion through the soft spring nights, bursting into acclaim and rapture of choir at daybreak, or lisping and twittering among the boughs and hedges through heat of day, like little winds that only make the Cowslip bells shake, and ruffle the petals of the Wild Rose.

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These Grouse place the nest in a tuft of grass or under a low, stunted bush. A hollow in the ground is worked out to fit the body and lined with a few blades of grass arranged in a circular form. The hens attend wholly to the hatching and rearing of the young and are attentive and watchful mothers.

The flesh of the Sharp-tail is lighter in color and more highly esteemed than that of the Prairie Hen, and the bird is therefore hunted more industriously.

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