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Birds and Nature Vol. 9 No. 5 [May 1901] Illustrated by Color Photography

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ILLUSTRATED BY COLOR PHOTOGRAPHY.
BIRDS AND NATURE.
Vol. IX.	MAY, 1901.	No. 5

CONTENTS.

MAY. 193: Now, shrilleth clear each several bird his note 193
AUDUBON’S ORIOLE. (Icterus audubonii.) 194
TO A SEA-BIRD. 197
FROM AN ORNITHOLOGIST’S YEAR BOOK. THE HEART OF A DRYAD. I. 198
THE MARBLED GODWIT. (Limosa fedoa.) 201
A BIRD-JOKE AT LEAFY LAWN. 202
THE RUSTY BLACKBIRD OR GRACKLE. (Scolecophagus carolinus.) 204
WHAT EVOLUTION MEANS. 207
THE SURF SCOTER. (Oidemia perspicillata.) 213
A BACK-YARD CLASS. 214
THE AMERICAN ELK OR WAPITI. (Cervus canadensis.) 216
A FRIENDLY FIELD MOUSE. 219
THE OPENING OF WINTER BUDS. 220
THE CHAMBERED NAUTILUS. 221
THE NAUTILUS AND OTHER CEPHALOPODS. 222: God made all the creatures and gave them 227
THE TRAILING ARBUTUS. (Epigaea repens.) 228
TRAILING ARBUTUS. 231
THE MOUNTAIN LAUREL. (Kalmia latifolia.) 232: Violets stir and arbutus waits 232
HOPS. (Humulus lupulus L.) 235
AWAKENING. 236
INDEX. Volume IX—January, 1901, to May, 1901, Inclusive. 237

MAY.

May brings all the flowers at once,

Teased by rains and kissed by suns;

Now the meadows white and gold;

Now the lambs leap in the fold.

May is wreathed with virgin white;

Glad May dances all the night;

May laughs, rolling ’mong the flowers,

Careless of the wintry hours.

May’s storms turn to sunny rain,

And, when Iris springs again,

All the angels clap their hands,

Singing in their seraph bands.

—Walter Thornbury, “The Twelve Brothers.”

Now, shrilleth clear each several bird his note,

The Halcyon charms the wave that knows no gale,

About our eaves the swallow tells her tale,

Along the river banks the swan, afloat,

And down the woodland glades the nightingale.

Now tendrils curl and earth bursts forth anew—

Now shepherds pipe and fleecy flocks are gay—

Now sailors sail, and Bacchus gets his due—

Now wild birds chirp and bees their toil pursue—

Sing, poet, thou—and sing thy best for May!

—William M. Hardinge, “Spring.”

AUDUBON’S ORIOLE.
(Icterus audubonii.)

The name oriole is from the French word oriol, which is a corruption of the Latin word aureolus, meaning golden. The name was originally applied to a vire, but is now used in a much wider sense and includes a number of birds.

The true orioles are birds of the Old World and are closely related to the thrushes. It is said that no fewer than twenty species from Asia and Africa have been described.

The orioles of America belong to a very different group of birds and are related to our blackbirds, the bobolink and the meadowlark. All these birds belong to the family Icteridae, the representatives of which are confined to the New World.

The genus of orioles (Icterus) contains about forty species, chiefly natives of Central and South America. The plumage of nearly all the species is more or less colored with shades of yellow, orange and black.

Audubon’s Oriole, the male of which we illustrate, has a very limited range, including the “valley of the Lower Rio Grande in Texas and southward in Mexico to Oaxaca.” It is more common in central and eastern Mexico than in any other part of its range. In the summer, it only frequents the denser forests of its Texas home, but during the winter months it will approach the inhabited regions.

The Mexicans capture these

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