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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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ouse builder, scatter some brightsand and tiny pebbles in the water, andwhen they are deserted, gather the housesfor your collection. Rest H. Metcalf. 55 THE ALASKAN SPARROW. Theres a far-away country, a wonderful land That the twilight loves best, where the finger of God Touched the land into shadows; unlighted they standAs they stood at the first over-ocean and sod, And the cloud and the mountain are one; all unheard Is the murmur of traffic, the sigh of unrest,And the King of the land is a golden-crowned bird With a robe of plain brown and an ashy-gray vest. Where the shadows are deepest a musical sound Cleaves their darkness, the song of the golden-crowned King. Never day is so dark but the sweet notes are heard,Never forest so dense but the melodies ring. Sing on, little King of the twilight land, sing, Thy kingdom extend through the oncoming days, Till the spaces between us with music shall ring, And the world hush its breath but to listen and praise. —Nelly Hart Woodworth. 56
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;. aa •■ 5c CO THE DOWITCHER. (Macrorhamphus griscus.) The range of the Dowitcher is limitedto the eastern part of North America. Itlias been reported as far west as the Mis-sissippi river. It breeds in the far north,usually within the Arctic Circle. Its mi-gration is extensive for it winters in Flor-ida, the West Indies and in the northernportion of South America. The Dowitcher is one of the bestknown of our coast birds. It bears manypopular names, such as Gray Snipe,Gray-back, Dowitch, Driver, Brown-backand Bay Bird. The generic name Mac-rorhamphus is derived from two Greekwords, makros, meaning large, andrhamphos, meaning bill. The specificname griseus means gray, and probablyhas reference to the grayish color of thewinter plumage. The Dowitchers are,the most numer-ous of the seaside snipes. Inland it is re-placed by the Long-billed Dowitcher(Macrorhamphus scolopaceus), which hasa longer bill and is a little larger. Mr.Wilson, in his Ornithology, gives thefollowing interesting

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