Birds and Nature, Vol. 12 No. 5 [December 1902]

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Various. Birds and Nature, Vol. 12 No. 5 [December 1902]

DECEMBER

THE HOODED ORIOLE (Icterus cucullatus.)

THE ORIOLE’S MISSION

THE CLOTHES MOTH AND ITS METHODS

INCIDENTS ABOUT BIRDS

THE CHUCK-WILL’S-WIDOW (Antrostomus carolinensis.)

AN AMATEUR CIRCUS. A True Story

THE GRAY-CROWNED LEUCOSTICTE (Leucosticte tephrocotis.)

CORUNDUM AND SPINEL

THE WHITE-CROWNED SPARROW (Zonotrichia leucophrys.)

AFTER THE SNOW STORM

THE FEATHERED FISHERMAN

A WINTER-PIECE AMONG THE PENTLANDS

THE CARNATION

WINTER SONG

BUDS OF PROMISE. COLD WEATHER NOTES FROM NATURE

HOW A CAT SAVED THE LIFE OF A CANARY

THE POCKET RATS

WINTER VISITORS

BEAUTIFUL VINES TO BE FOUND IN OUR WILD WOODS. III

THE PERSIMMON (Diospyros virginiana.)

AS TO ALLIGATORS

DANDELION (Taraxacum taraxacum Karst.)

FROM SPRING TO RIVULET

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Only a very limited portion of the United States is beautified by the presence of the bright colored Hooded Oriole. The North has the richly plumaged Baltimore oriole for a short time each year, but only the far southeastern part of Texas is enlivened by this graceful, active bird of our illustration, which is “so full of song that the woods are filled with music all the day.” Both of these birds seem hardly to belong to the North, where somber colors seem more in harmony with a severer climate. The Hooded Oriole does not attempt the journey and when we see the Baltimore,

in our northern woods we cannot but ask, with the poet,

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Suddenly there was a most terrific clatter and noise, coming ever nearer and nearer. We looked at each other open-mouthed with surprise, when, with a flourish of lariat and a wild Indian war-whoop, that rose above the deafening noise, in dashed Harvey upon “Daisy,” a triumphant figure – having accomplished the difficult feat of making the pony carry him up stairs. He dismounted with a jump. “Ladies and Gentlemen,” he began, “the first act on the programme will be by this wonderful horse – Daisy, down on your haunches!” The lariat swept the air in true ring-master fashion, and Daisy obediently sat back on her haunches.

“Shake hands, Daisy.”

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