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    Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography, Vol. 2, No. 3 September 1897
    Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography, Vol. 2, No. 3 September 1897
    Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography, Vol. 2, No. 3 September 1897
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    Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography, Vol. 2, No. 3 September 1897

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    Release dateNov 15, 2013
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      Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography, Vol. 2, No. 3 September 1897 - Various Various

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      Vol. II, No 3, September 1897, by Various

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      Title: Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography, Vol. II, No 3, September 1897

      Author: Various

      Release Date: November 21, 2009 [EBook #30511]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK BIRDS, ILLUSTRATED BY COLOR ***

      Produced by Chris Curnow, Joseph Cooper, Anne Storer, some

      images courtesy of The Internet Archive and the Online

      Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net

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      Title page added.

      BIRDS

      A MONTHLY SERIAL

      ILLUSTRATED BY COLOR PHOTOGRAPHY

      DESIGNED TO PROMOTE

      KNOWLEDGE OF BIRD-LIFE

      VOLUME II.

      CHICAGO

      Nature Study Publishing Company

      copyright, 1897

      by

      Nature Study Publishing Co.

      chicago.

      BIRDS.

      Illustrated by COLOR PHOTOGRAPHY.

      Vol. II.

      No. 3.

      SEPTEMBER.

      BIRD SONG.

      How songs are made

      Is a mystery,

      Which studied for years

      Still baffles me.

      —R. H. Stoddard.

      OME birds are poets and sing all summer, says Thoreau. They are the true singers. Any man can write verses in the love season. We are most interested in those birds that sing for the love of music, and not of their mates; who meditate their strains and amuse themselves with singing; the birds whose strains are of deeper sentiment."

      Thoreau does not mention by name any of the poet-birds to which he alludes, but we think our selections for the present month include some of them. The most beautiful specimen of all, which is as rich in color and sun-sparkle as the most polished gem to which he owes his name, the Ruby-throated Humming Bird, cannot sing at all, uttering only a shrill mouse-like squeak. The humming sound made by his wings is far more agreeable than his voice, for when the mild gold stars flower out it announces his presence. Then

      "A dim shape quivers about

      Some sweet rich heart of a rose."

      He hovers over all the flowers that possess the peculiar sweetness that he loves—the blossoms of the honeysuckle, the red, the white, and the yellow roses, and the morning glory. The red clover is as sweet to him as to the honey bee, and a pair of them may often be seen hovering over the blossoms for a moment, and then disappearing with the quickness of a flash of light, soon to return to the same spot and repeat the performance. Squeak, squeak! is probably their call note.

      Something of the poet is the Yellow Warbler, though his song is not quite as long as an epic. He repeats it a little too often, perhaps, but there is such a pervading cheerfulness about it that we will not quarrel with the author. Sweet-sweet-sweet-sweet-sweet-sweeter-sweeter! is his frequent contribution to the volume of nature, and all the while he is darting about the trees, carrying sun-glints on his back wherever he goes. His song is appropriate to every season, but it is in the spring, when we hear it first, that it is doubly welcome to the ear. The grateful heart asks with Bourdillon:

      "What tidings hath the Warbler heard

      That bids him leave the lands of summer

      For woods and fields where April yields

      Bleak welcome to the blithe newcomer?"

      The Mourning Dove may be called the poet of melancholy, for its song is, to us, without one element of cheerfulness. Hopeless despair is in every note, and, as the bird undoubtedly does have cheerful moods, as indicated by its actions, its song must be appreciated only by its mate. Coo-o, coo-o! suddenly thrown upon the air and resounding near and far is something hardly to be extolled, we should think, and yet the beautiful and graceful Dove possesses so many pretty ways that every one is attracted to it, and the tender affection of

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