Birds and Nature Vol. 11 No. 1 [January 1902]

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Various. Birds and Nature Vol. 11 No. 1 [January 1902]

A SONG FOR THE NEW YEAR’S EVE

THE GOLDEN-CROWNED KINGLET (Regulus satrapa.)

THE TALKING PINE TREE

THE KING RAIL (Rallus elegans.)

BETWEEN THE DAYLIGHT AND THE DARK

TO A NUTHATCH

THE BROWN-HEADED NUTHATCH (Sitta pusilla.)

MY RED-HEADED NEIGHBORS

I

II

III

IV

V

BEAUTIFUL SNOW

THE SHARP-SHINNED HAWK (Accipiter velox.)

BIRDS ON THE WING

A SUNSET CLUB

QUARTZ

EVENING IN THE CANYON

BERRIES OF THE WOODS

EARLY RECOLLECTIONS OF NATURAL OBJECTS

TWO STRANGE HOMES

THE GREENLAND WHALE (Balaena mysticetus.)

THE THISTLE

WITH SILVER CHAINS AND GAY ATTIRE

THE BIRDS IN THEIR WINTER HOME (In the Woods.)

IRISH MOSS (Chondrus crispus lyngb.)

THE CARDINAL FLOWER

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In these pleasing words the poet speaks of the kinglets. Yet his words may hardly apply to the Golden-crowned Kinglet, except in the northernmost part of its range, for it winters from the northern border of the United States southward to the Gulf of Mexico. “Muffled in its thick coat of feathers, the diminutive Goldcrest braves our severest winters, living evidence that, given an abundance of food, temperature is a secondary factor in a bird’s existence.”

But little larger than a hummingbird, though unlike that mite of bird life, it seeks in the cooler air of northern climes a place for its nest. It also breeds throughout the length of the Rocky Mountains and in the Alleghanies as far south as North Carolina.

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When they reached home papa, who knew nothing of pine tree fairies, told mamma that Rover and Jacob had been playing “babes in the wood.”

The next week was a stormy one and the days were growing shorter. But on Friday the clouds cleared and Jacob begged to go into the cemetery to play after school. But his mamma said it was too damp. However, on Saturday afternoon she said that he might, and he eagerly donned his overcoat and mittens.

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