Author: VariousPublisher: Litres
ISBN: 5043103450
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography, Vol. 1, No. 1
Author: VariousPublisher: Litres
ISBN: 5043103450
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography, Vol. 1, No. 6
Author: VariousPublisher: Litres
ISBN: 5043103469
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 54
Book Description
Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography, Vol. 1, No. 2
Author: VariousPublisher: Litres
ISBN: 504310242X
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography, Vol. 1, No. 3
Author: VariousPublisher: Litres
ISBN: 5043102438
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 55
Book Description
Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography, Vol. 2, No. 1
Author: VariousPublisher: Litres
ISBN: 5043102446
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Birds, Color Illustrations Vol. 1
Author: VariousPublisher: VM eBooks
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
IT has become a universal custom to obtain and preserve the likenesses of one’s friends. Photographs are the most popular form of these likenesses, as they give the true exterior outlines and appearance, (except coloring) of the subjects. But how much more popular and useful does photography become, when it can be used as a means of securing plates from which to print photographs in a regular printing press, and, what is more astonishing and delightful, to produce the real colors of nature as shown in the subject, no matter how brilliant or varied. We quote from the December number of the Ladies’ Home Journal: “An excellent suggestion was recently made by the Department of Agriculture at Washington that the public schools of the country shall have a new holiday, to be known as Bird Day. Three cities have already adopted the suggestion, and it is likely that others will quickly follow. Of course, Bird Day will differ from its successful predecessor, Arbor Day. We can plant trees but not birds. It is suggested that Bird Day take the form of bird exhibitions, of bird exercises, of bird studies—any form of entertainment, in fact, which will bring children closer to their little brethren of the air, and in more intelligent sympathy with their life and ways. There is a wonderful story in bird life, and but few of our children know it. Few of our elders do, for that matter. A whole day of a year can well and profitably be given over to the birds. Than such study, nothing can be more interesting. The cultivation of an intimate acquaintanceship with our feathered friends is a source of genuine pleasure. We are under greater obligations to the birds than we dream of. Without them the world would be more barren than we imagine. Consequently, we have some duties which we owe them. What these duties are only a few of us know or have ever taken the trouble to find out. Our children should not be allowed to grow to maturity without this knowledge. The more they know of the birds the better men and women they will be. We can hardly encourage such studies too much.” Of all animated nature, birds are the most beautiful in coloring, most graceful in form and action, swiftest in motion and most perfect emblems of freedom. They are withal, very intelligent and have many remarkable traits, so that their habits and characteristics make a delightful study for all lovers of nature. In view of the facts, we feel that we are doing a useful work for the young, and one that will be appreciated by progressive parents, in placing within the easy possession of children in the homes these beautiful photographs of birds. The text is prepared with the view of giving the children as clear an idea as possible, of haunts, habits, characteristics and such other information as will lead them to love the birds and delight in their study and acquaintance.
Birds and Nature Vol. 9 No. 1 [January 1901]
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Author: VariousPublisher: CHICAGO A. W. MUMFORD, Publisher
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 39
Book Description
Example in his ebook THE WHITE-WINGED CROSSBILL. (Loxia leucoptera.) The Crossbills, together with the finches, the sparrows, the grosbeaks, the redpolls, the goldfinches, the towhees, the cardinals, the longspurs, and the buntings, belong to that large family of perching birds called the Fringillidae, from the Latin word Fringilla, meaning a finch. Mr. Chapman tells us, in his “Birds of Eastern North America,” that “this, the largest family of birds, contains some five hundred and fifty species, which are represented in all parts of the world, except the Australian region. Its members present a wide diversity of form and habit, but generally agree in possessing stout, conical bills, which are admirably adapted to crush seeds. They are thus chief among seed-eaters, and for this reason are not so migratory as insect-eating species.” Many of the birds most highly prized for the cage and as songsters are representatives of this family and many of the species are greatly admired for their beautiful coloring. The White-Winged Crossbill is a native of the northern part of North America, migrating southward into the United States during the winter months. Its technical name, Loxia leucoptera, is most appropriate and descriptive. The generic name Loxia is derived from the Greek loxos, meaning crosswise or slanting, and the specific name leucoptera is from two Greek works, meaning white and wing, and has reference to the white tips of the feathers of the wings. The common name, Crossbill, or, as the bird is sometimes called, Crossbeak, describes the peculiar structure of the bill which marks them as perhaps the most peculiar of our song birds. The bill is quite deeply cut at the base and compressed near the tips of the two parts, which are quite abruptly bent, one upward and the other downward, so that the points cross at an angle of about forty-five degrees. This characteristic gives this bird a parrot-like appearance. The similarity is heightened by the fact that these hook-like bills are used by the birds to assist in climbing from branch to branch. The Crossbills are even parrot-like in captivity. Dr. Ridgway, in the “Ornithology of Illinois,” writes as follows regarding the habits of a pair: “They were very tame, and were exceedingly interesting little pets. Their movements in the cage were like those of caged parrots in every respect, except that they were far more easy and rapid. They clung to the sides and upper wires of the cage with their feet, hung down from them, and seemed to enjoy the practice of walking with their head downward. They were in full song, and both the male and female were quite good singers. Their songs were irregular and varied, but sweet and musical. They ate almost every kind of food, but were especially eager for slices of raw apple. Although while they lived they were continually bickering over their food, yet when the female was accidentally choked by a bit of egg shell her mate was inconsolable, ceased to sing, refused his food, and died of grief in a very few days.” To be continue in this ebook
Nature, Color Illustrations Vol.6
Author: VariousPublisher: VM eBooks
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
SQUIRREL TOWN. BIRDS AND ALL NATURE. WILSON'S SNIPE. THE BLACK WOLF. THE BLACK WOLF. AN ARMADILLO AS A PET. AFRICAN FOLK LORE. THE RED SQUIRREL. SECRETS OF AN OLD GARDEN. BIRDS FORTELL MARRIAGE. THE PRAIRIE HEN. ABOUT THE SONGSTERS. THE BUTTERFLY TRADE. THE PASSENGER PIGEON IN WISCONSIN AND NEBRASKA. THE AMERICAN RABBIT. THIRTY MILES FOR AN ACORN. THE OCELOT. AZAMET THE HERMIT AND HIS DUMB FRIENDS. THE USE OF FLOWERS. ALL NATURE.
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