قراءة كتاب Birds and Nature, Vol. 10 No. 3 [October 1901]

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Birds and Nature, Vol. 10 No. 3 [October 1901]

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ILLUSTRATED BY COLOR PHOTOGRAPHY.
BIRDS AND NATURE.
Vol. X.	OCTOBER, 1901.	No. 3

CONTENTS.

SONNET—OCTOBER. 97: October comes, a woodman old 97
THE YELLOW-BELLIED FLYCATCHER. (Empidonax flaviventris.) 98
THE REIGN OF THE WHIPPOORWILLS. 101
RUBY-CROWNED KINGLET. (Regulus calendula.) 102
THE CORN SONG. 104
THE OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHER. (Contopus borealis.) 107
THE COMING OF MISS OCTOBER MONTH. 108
THE TREE SPARROW. (Spizella monticola.) 110
THE SPARROWS’ BEDTIME. 113
THE SPARROW FAMILY. 114
MR. AND MRS. SPARROW’S BLUNDER. 115
A WINDOW-PANE REVERIE. 116
THE BLACK-THROATED GREEN WARBLER. (Dendroica virens.) 119
A LIBEL ON THE BIRDS. 120
BERYL. 122
SONG BIRDS OF THE SOUTHWEST. 127
THE AFRICAN LION. (Felis leo.) 131
TROUTING BAREFOOT. 133
THE ALASKAN MOOSE. (Alces gigas.) 134: There’s a wonderful weaver 137
THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A DUCK. FOUNDED UPON FACT. 138
A LOST FLOWER. 140
THE POLAR BEAR. (Ursus maritimus.) 143: O, beautiful world of gold! 144

SONNET—OCTOBER.

The month of carnival of all the year,

When Nature lets the wild earth go its way,

And spend whole seasons on a single day.

The spring-time holds her white and purple dear;

October, lavish, flaunts them far and near;

The summer charily her reds doth lay

Like jewels on her costliest array;

October, scornful, burns them on a bier.

The winter hoards his pearls of frost in sign

Of kingdom: whiter pearls than winter knew,

Or Empress wore, in Egypt’s ancient line,

October, feasting ’neath her dome of blue,

Drinks at a single draught, slow filtered through

Sunshiny air, as in a tingling wine!

—Helen Hunt Jackson.

October comes, a woodman old,

Fenced with tough leather from the cold;

Round swings his sturdy axe, and lo!

A fir-branch falls at every blow.

—Walter Thornbury.

THE YELLOW-BELLIED FLYCATCHER.
(Empidonax flaviventris.)

The Yellow-bellied Flycatcher with the kingbird, the phoebe and the wood pewee belongs to a family of birds peculiar to America—the family Tyrannidæ or the family of tyrants. No better name could be applied to these birds when we take into consideration the enormous number of insects, of all descriptions, that they capture and devour and their method of doing it. They resemble the hawks in some respects. They are at home only where there are trees, on the outer branches of which they can perch and await a passing insect, and when one appears they “launch forth into the air; there is a sharp, suggestive click of the broad bill and, completing their aerial circle, they return to their perch and are again en garde.”

In the tropics, the land of luxuriant vegetable growth, where the number and kinds of insects seem almost innumerable, the larger number of the three hundred and fifty known species are found. In the United States we are favored with the visits, during the warmer months, of but thirty-five species of these interesting and useful birds.

As we would naturally expect of birds of prey, whether hunters of insects or of higher animal life, these birds are not usually social, even with their own kind. They are also practically songless, a characteristic which seems perfectly fitted to the habits of the Flycatchers. Some of the species have sweet-voiced calls. This is the case with the wood pewee, of

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