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Birds Illustrated by Color Photography – Revisited Vol 1. May, 1897 No. 5 * THE WOOD THRUSH. “With what a clear And ravishing sweetness sang the plaintive Thrush; I love to hear his delicate rich voice, Chanting through all the gloomy day, when loud Amid the trees is dropping the big rain, And gray mists [...]

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Birds Illustrated by Color Photography – Revisited Vol 1. May, 1897 No. 5 * THE NIGHT HAWK. HE range of the Night Hawk, also known as “Bull-bat,” “Mosquito Hawk,” “Will o’ the Wisp,” “Pisk,” “Piramidig,” and sometimes erroneously as “Whip-poor-will,” being frequently mistaken for that bird, is an extensive one. It is only a summer [...]

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Birds Illustrated by Color Photography – Revisited Vol 1. May, 1897 No. 5 * THE INDIGO BUNTING. HE Indigo Bunting’s arrival at its summer home is usually in the early part of May, where it remains until about the middle of September. It is numerous in the eastern and middle states, inhabiting the continent and [...]

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Birds Illustrated by Color Photography – Revisited Vol 1. May, 1897 No. 5 * PROTHONOTARY YELLOW WARBLERS. Quite a long name for such small birds—don’t you think so? You will have to get your teacher to repeat it several times, I fear, before you learn it. These little yellow warblers are just as happy as [...]

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Birds Illustrated by Color Photography – Revisited Vol 1. May, 1897 No. 5 * THE SCISSOR-TAILED FLYCATCHER. LYCATCHERS are all interesting, and many of them are beautiful, but the Scissor-tailed species of Texas is especially attractive. They are also known as the Swallow-tailed Flycatcher, and more frequently as the “Texan Bird of Paradise.” It is [...]

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Birds Illustrated by Color Photography – Revisited Vol 1. May, 1897 No. 5 * CHICKADEE. Bird of the Merry Heart.Here is a picture of a bird that is always merry. He is a bold, saucy little fellow, too, but we all love him for it. Don’t you think he looks some like the Canada Jay [...]

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Birds Illustrated by Color Photography – Revisited Vol 1. May, 1897 No. 5 * THE MARSH HAWK. NE of the most widely distributed birds of North America is the Marsh Hawk, according to Wilson, breeding from the fur regions around Hudson’s Bay to Texas, and from Nova Scotia to Oregon and California. Excepting in the [...]

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