item: #1 of 18 id: 25874 author: Various title: Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography, Vol. 1, No. 4 April, 1897 date: None words: 9683 flesch: 82 summary: On such occasions they are very silent, and their presence is only betrayed by the scoldings they receive from other birds. It is also a well disposed bird, and seldom quarrels or fights with its own kind, or with smaller birds, but it attacks intruders on its winter stores with such vigor and persistence that they are compelled to vacate the premises in a hurry. keywords: acorns; birds; chicago; day; eggs; family; feet; food; ground; illustration; inches; jay; nest; new; season; subscriptions; time; tree; water; wren cache: 25874.txt plain text: 25874.txt item: #2 of 18 id: 25983 author: Various title: Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography, Vol. 1, No. 5 May, 1897 date: None words: 13113 flesch: 79 summary: Although a constant prowler about the nests of other birds, he is so wary and secretive that his little home is usually found only by accident. His conclusion is that birds that eat eggs of insects are of the greatest value to the farmer, as they feed almost entirely on injurious insects and their eggs, and are present all winter, where other birds are absent. keywords: = =; birds; catbird; chicago; chickadee; co.; color; day; eggs; ground; hawk; illustration; nature; nest; new; night; price; song; states; study; subscriptions; thrush; time; trees; wood; young cache: 25983.txt plain text: 25983.txt item: #3 of 18 id: 26656 author: Various title: Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography, Vol. 2, No. 2 August, 1897 date: None words: 9235 flesch: 79 summary: Appearing in monthly parts, it has been read and admired by thousands of people, who, through the life-like pictures presented, have made the acquaintance of many birds, and have since become enthusiastic observers of them. Strictly speaking, there are few birds to which the word singing can properly be applied, the majority of them not having more than two or three notes, and they with little suggestion of music in them. keywords: = =; america; birds; eagle; eggs; fish; grass; ground; nest; north; osprey; page; song; vulture; water cache: 26656.txt plain text: 26656.txt item: #4 of 18 id: 30103 author: Various title: Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography, Vol. 1, No. 3 March 1897 date: None words: 10188 flesch: 82 summary: In the early spring, however, he wages war against robins, wrens, swallows, and other birds whose habitations are of a kind to take his fancy. Other birds may like to travel alone, but when jolly Mr. Bobolink and his quiet little wife come from the South, where they have spent the winter, they come with a large party of friends. keywords: birds; blue; brown; chicago; crow; day; eggs; food; good; illustration; nest; owl; season; spring; time; tree; winter; year cache: 30103.txt plain text: 30103.txt item: #5 of 18 id: 30221 author: Various title: Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography, Vol. 1, No. 1 January, 1897 date: None words: 8238 flesch: 84 summary: I have web feet, but I perch like other birds on the branches of the trees near the river. I can mock other birds. keywords: birds; eggs; feathers; feet; golden; ground; illustration; male; nest; plumage; red; tail; trees cache: 30221.txt plain text: 30221.txt item: #6 of 18 id: 30511 author: Various title: Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography, Vol. 2, No. 3 September 1897 date: None words: 10247 flesch: 82 summary: These wonderfully dainty little birds are of great value to the farmer and the fruit grower, doing good work among all classes of fruit trees by killing grubs and larvae. The wonderful melody ascended gradually in the scale as it progressed, now trilling, now legato, the most perfect, exalted, unrestrained, yet withal, finished bird song that I ever heard. keywords: = =; bird; day; eggs; hermit; house; nature; nest; notes; ruby; song; sparrow; summer; time; tree; white; wren cache: 30511.txt plain text: 30511.txt item: #7 of 18 id: 30523 author: Various title: Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography, Vol. 2, No. 1 July 1897 date: None words: 8808 flesch: 81 summary: A few days later I observed a large number of Red Wings near the Hyde Park water works, in the vicinity of which, among the trees and in the marshes, I also saw many other birds unknown to me. Appearing in monthly parts, it has been read and admired by thousands of people, who, through the life-like pictures presented, have made the acquaintance of many birds, and have since become enthusiastic observers of them. keywords: = =; america; bird; duck; eagle; eggs; food; ground; neck; nest; north; tree; water; white; wood; young cache: 30523.txt plain text: 30523.txt item: #8 of 18 id: 30552 author: Various title: Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography, Vol. 2, No. 4 October, 1897 date: None words: 10162 flesch: 81 summary: You now begin to realize he is determined to understand all about the feathered bees, as large as little birds, the village boy had seen. In the midst of the mosses and lichens that covered the rocks the bird imbedded its nest, composed of fine grasses, arranged in a circular form and lined with the feathers of grouse and other birds. keywords: = =; america; bird; day; eggs; grasses; ground; nature; nest; north; northern; pewee; summer; tree; white; wood cache: 30552.txt plain text: 30552.txt item: #9 of 18 id: 30626 author: Various title: Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography, Vol. 1, No. 2 February, 1897 date: None words: 9825 flesch: 81 summary: He is a professional nest robber, and other birds are as watchful of him as is a mother of her babe. He is omniverous but is especially fond of eggs and young birds. keywords: = =; american; bird; black; blue; chicago; day; eggs; illustration; kingfisher; nest; parrot; red; robin; time; trees; want; way; young cache: 30626.txt plain text: 30626.txt item: #10 of 18 id: 30666 author: Various title: Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography, Vol. 1, No. 6 June, 1897 date: None words: 13821 flesch: 78 summary: He is so fine an imitator that it is hard to believe he is not doing more than mimicking the notes of other birds, but rather that he really does mock them with a sort of defiant sarcasm. Nature has given him lots of music and gifted him with the power of imitating the songs of other birds and sounds of other animals. keywords: = =; birds; black; chicago; co.; day; eggs; food; good; green; illustration; mocking; nature; nest; new; night; notes; number; oriole; owl; song; states; study; subscriptions; summer; tree; year; young cache: 30666.txt plain text: 30666.txt item: #11 of 18 id: 30677 author: Various title: Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography, Vol. 2, No. 5 November 1897 date: None words: 9370 flesch: 82 summary: Fine feathers make fine birds, they say. * * * BIRDS A MONTHLY SERIAL ILLUSTRATED BY COLOR PHOTOGRAPHY DESIGNED TO PROMOTE KNOWLEDGE OF BIRD-LIFE VOLUME II. CHICAGO. keywords: = =; america; bird; brown; eggs; ground; kingfisher; nature; nest; page; species; study; summer; time; turkey; white cache: 30677.txt plain text: 30677.txt item: #12 of 18 id: 30965 author: Various title: Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography, Vol. 2, No. 6 December, 1897 date: None words: 9873 flesch: 79 summary: Yes, we build our nest as other birds do; ours is not a dainty affair; any sort of trash mixed with mud will do for the outside. That is to let the Robin and other birds know I am at home, and they better not come around. keywords: = =; american; bird; chicago; co.; duck; eggs; english; grass; nature; nest; new; north; place; sparrow; study; trees; winter; yellow cache: 30965.txt plain text: 30965.txt item: #13 of 18 id: 34165 author: Various title: Birds Illustrated by Color Photography, Vol. 3, No. 1 [January, 1898] A Monthly Serial designed to Promote Knowledge of Bird-Life date: None words: 10059 flesch: 83 summary: I reckon he stops at noon time, said Bobbie, as other birds do. With the January number of BIRDS, we enter upon a new year with the satisfaction of having pleased our readers, as well as rendered an actual service to the cause of education, ornithological literature, and art. keywords: = =; birds; bob; day; eggs; family; mrs; nature; nest; owl; red; study; white; wren cache: 34165.txt plain text: 34165.txt item: #14 of 18 id: 34294 author: Various title: Birds Illustrated by Color Photography, Vol. 3, No. 2 [February, 1898] A Monthly Serial designed to Promote Knowledge of Bird-Life date: None words: 10919 flesch: 81 summary: Looking at the little tree with its nest and little birds high in the branches he bade the men support the tree carefully while it was sawed through the trunk a little above the ground, and then carry it in an upright position to a safe distance and stick it into the ground with proper support. There are many birds which thus, like higher mortals, have their fits of madness in the days of courtship. keywords: = =; birds; black; eggs; ground; mrs; nature; nest; north; owl; red; species; study; time; tree; white; wren cache: 34294.txt plain text: 34294.txt item: #15 of 18 id: 38315 author: Cuyer, Édouard title: Artistic Anatomy of Animals date: None words: 95888 flesch: 60 summary: under those of _external anconeus_, or _lateral_ or _short anconeus_; whilst the internal head becomes the _internal anconeus_, or _median_. But that which still further complicates this question of nomenclature is that some authors give this name of third to a peroneal which, in the carnivora, is situated more definitely in the group of external muscles (see below, =Short Lateral Peroneal=). keywords: animals; bone; border; cat; dog; extensor; external; extremity; fig; flexor; forearm; form; great; head; horse; human; humerus; illustration; inferior; left; limbs; man; muscle; phalanges; point; portion; posterior; process; quadrupeds; region; scapula; superior; surface; tendon; | | cache: 38315.txt plain text: 38315.txt item: #16 of 18 id: 47280 author: Various title: Birds Illustrated by Color Photography, Vol. 3, No. 5 date: None words: 11850 flesch: 79 summary: ---- THE FASCINATION OF BIRD STUDY. Books on birds, continues the _Boston Evening Transcript_, like good wine, need no bush at this season of the year; the Golden-winged Woodpecker drums announcement on every limb; the Redwing Blackbird gurgles and chuckles and calls across the swamp; and the Lesser Sparrows and Bluebirds and Robins wake the morning to the weaving of new song. keywords: ---the; america; birds; day; eggs; head; hen; little; mrs; nest; north; south; sparrow; spring; tail; time; tree; water; wings; wren; yellow cache: 47280.txt plain text: 47280.txt item: #17 of 18 id: 47326 author: Various title: Birds Illustrated by Color Photography, Vol. 3, No. 4. date: None words: 11540 flesch: 77 summary: It may in fact be an expression of joy such as we fancy we interpret in the songs of many other birds. ---- IN 1889 and 1892 the German Song Bird Society of Oregon introduced there 400 pairs of the following species of German song birds, to-wit: Song Thrushes, Black Thrushes, Skylarks, Woodlarks, Goldfinches, Chaffinches, Ziskins, Greenfinches, Bullfinches, Grossbeaks, Black Starlings, Robin Redbreasts, Linnets, Singing Quails, Goldhammers, Linnets, Forest Finches, and the plain and black headed Nightingales. keywords: birds; day; eggs; family; feet; ground; grouse; john; little; mrs; nest; nightingale; number; song; south; states; time; trees; white; winter; wren cache: 47326.txt plain text: 47326.txt item: #18 of 18 id: 47649 author: Various title: Birds Illustrated by Color Photography, Vol. 3, No. 6, June 1898 date: None words: 10964 flesch: 79 summary: But I did see him, for we little birds have to be always on the watch against our human, as well as feathered enemies, so I just stood still and peeked out at him from the other side of the tree. I am sociable, however, and go about a great deal in the company of other birds. keywords: birds; brown; day; days; eggs; feathers; goose; mrs; nest; north; south; spring; states; tree; white; winter; woodpecker; wren; young cache: 47649.txt plain text: 47649.txt