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Image from page 256 of “Baby birds at home” (1912)

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Title: Baby birds at home
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Kearton, Richard, 1862-1928
Subjects: Birds — Behavior Birds — Juvenile literature
Publisher: London, New York [etc.] Cassell and company, ltd.
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and slow-worms, whichare more easily overtaken and caught.After feeding it will sit motionless for hourson some jutting crag in the face of a cliff,or on the branch of a tree. When on thewing it has a habit of sailing round andround in majestic circles, at a great height,and uttering its plaintive catlike mewingcry. It makes its nest of sticks and twigs,frequently lining it with green leaves, or bitsof wool The structure is placed in the forkor on the horizontal branch of a tree andsometimes on a ledge in the face of a cliff.Occasionally the old nest of a carrion crowis utilised. The eggs number from two to fourand are variable in colour. Some speci-mens are dingy white and without spots,whilst others are greenish or bluish white,spotted, blotched and streaked with reddishbrown. The chicks are covered with beautifulwhite down when hatched. They leave thenest before they can fly very far, and evenw^hen they are strong on the wing follow theirparents about for some time after fledging.

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BLACK-HEADED GULLS. The Black-headed Gull THIS is perhaps the best known of allour sea-gulls. The facts that it nearlyalways breeds inland, and visits our harboursand tidal rivers in great numbers during thewinter months, give nearly everybody anample opportunity of studying it duringsome periods of the year. In the severewinter of 1895 numbers of these birds foundtheir way up the river Thames into the veryheart of London, and were so well treated byinterested spectators, who fed them uponscraps of fish, shrimps, biscuits, and bits ofbread and cheese, that they have visitedthe metropolis regularly ever since. The black or, to be more accurate, darkbrown hood from which the bird has receivedits common name, is only a breeding seasondecoration. In the winter the head is white,except for a tinge of grey at the back anda darkish grey patch behind the feathers that cover the ear. 119 120 Baby Birds at Home Throughout the greater part of the yearthe Black-headed Gull feeds upon worms,slugs,

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Image from page 579 of “Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine” (1912) – Valley Of Desolation

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Title: Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
Subjects: Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
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he Pusher Engineer by Edgar White

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ILLY GOAT BOB, theboys called him, carelessthat the name piercedworse than a swordpoint. For seven yearshe had handled thethrottle of the bigmachine that nosedthe long freight trainsup the two-mile hill into Divide City,where the grade was level. The crestreached, the pusher engine would swingloose and drift back into the valley, thereto wait in the desolation for the nextheavy train needing a lift. Bob Manning had been a youngster oftwenty when they changed him from theleft to the right hand side of the pusher.He supposed that in the fullness of timetheyd give him a run on the road and lethim be a real engineer. But once havingfixed him on the hill job they seemed tohave forgotten all about it. It was thepenalty of modesty. Had he gone intoheadquarters and demanded promotion,in all likelihood they would have remem-bered him and given him somethingbetter. But Bob was a shy sort of chap,and he was afraid if he suggested thechange he might be told they had asuperintendent to look after

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Image from page 31 of “Studies in bird migration” (1912) – The Great Fish River Museum

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Title: Studies in bird migration
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Clarke, William Eagle, 1853-1938
Subjects: Birds — Migration Birds — Great Britain
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eason, their very sweetsong being finished, descend, and peacefully, after thebeginning of spring, fly out thence and reseek their oldnests or make new ones with their natural diligence.But if that lump be drawn out by ignorant young men(for old and expert fishermen put it back) and carried toa warm place, the Swallows, loosened by the access ofheat, begin to fly about, but live only a short time,giving proof that premature birth is to be guardedagainst. It happens also in spring-time that the birds 8 STUDIES IN BIRD-MIGRATION returning to freedom, and occupying- their old nests orbuilding new ones, being overtaken by rough weatherand a heavy fall of snow, all alike die, so that none areseen the whole summer about the houses or river banks,except a very few which have risen from the deeperwaters, or journeying from elsewhere, are seen, whenwinter is wholly dispelled in May, to arrive, about toreproduce offspring for the good of nature. The picture here given is from a photograph taken

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direct from Glaus Magnuss work, for the loan of whichI was indebted to the late Professor Newton, Itrepresents two fishermen standing on the edge of theice and drawing towards them a net containing amixed catch of Swallows and fishes. This ridiculous story was accepted by a numberof distinguished naturalists, including Linnaeus : andJohn Reinhold Forster, in his edition of Kalms Travelsinto North America (p. 140), informs us that he canreckon himself among the eye-witnesses of this para- SOME ANCIF.NT AND ANTIQUATED VIEWS 9 doxon of natural history ; he proceeds to relate how, in1735, he saw Swallows taken from the Vistula in winter.Cuvier (1769-1832) was also a believer in the theory ofsubmergence, for he says, the Martin becomes torpidduring winter ; and that it passes the cold season underwater at the bottom of marshes appears to be certain.Learned bodies such as the Royal Society of London andthe French Academy have discussed this theory andpublished the results in their Transacti

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Image from page 399 of “Germany;” (1912)

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Title: Germany;
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Dickie, James F., 1848- Compton, Edward Theodore, ill Compton, E. Harrison (Edward Harrison), ill
Subjects: Germany — Description and travel
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ough to endure the pressure,or whether her timbers would be suddenly rippedopen, and plunge us into the icy flood. Thedanger safely passed, we began to ascend.Through the forest, by the side of precipitousrocks that rose high above us, we pass through aclearing in the woods, reach a level plateau, andlook over a wide range of meadow land. Beforeus towers the Konigstein, that high and lonelyfortress, with its attendant giant rocks, thePfaffenstein and the Lillienstein. A magnificentsweep of the river, as it winds on its way andwaters this fertile region, lies far below. Now weturn our eyes in the direction of Bohemia, and seea goodly land stretching away far as the eye canreach. Between us and the Bohemian land liesa rocky valley of desolation. As one says, it isfilled with the riddlings of creation. It looksas if gigantic powers had battled here with great ROCK SCENERY (PREBISCH-THOR) INSAXON SWITZERLAND On the Bohemian border overlooking the valley ofthe Fllbe towards the south-east.

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IN SAXONY 163 stones for weapons, and the combatants and theirinstruments of war had been suddenly turned intostone. Every fantastic shape of rock appears tofrown upon you. It is a region of terror, adesolation of desolations. Yet it is grand in itsfrowning fury and its grim sublimity. It seemsan accursed land of waste places, where no manwould wish to dwell. To look from the Bastei insummer along the valley of the Elbe, with itsmerchant ships and its smihng meadows, is a greatdelight. When all the region lies under a snowymantle, and winter binds the earth in icy chainsand the Elbe in strong fetters, it is much moredelightful, and is a joy never to be forgotten. The descent by the long series of stone stepsthat lead to Rathen has new charms to disclose.Great boulders stand in the midst of the meadows,as if the giants in their play had hurled masses ofrock from the heights of the Bastei into the plainbelow. An old woman sitting by the wayside, towhom we gave alms, said, Have you seen

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Image from page 533 of “A history of the game birds, wild-fowl and shore birds of Massachusetts and adjacent states… with observations on their…recent decrease in numbers; also the means for conserving those still in existence” (1912)

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Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Forbush, Edward Howe, 1858-1929 Massachusetts. State Board of Agriculture Beecroft, Willey Ingraham, 1870- Job, Herbert Keightley, 1864-1933
Subjects: Game and game-birds — Massachusetts Game and game-birds — New England Birds — Massachusetts Birds — Conservation
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e sky in theirexalted and unswerving flight, sweeping along at a speedexceeding that of the fastest express train, traversing a conti-nent on the wings of the wind, their long lines glistening likesilver in the bright sunlight, they present the grandest andmost impressive spectacle in bird life to be found on this con-tinent. When at last they find their haven of rest they swingin wide, majestic circuits, spying out their landfall, until, theirspiral reconnoissance ended and their apprehensions quiteallayed, they sail gently down to the grateful waters, to rest,drink, bathe and feed at ease. Fifty years ago in the far west great flocks of these birds, aquarter of a mile in length, were seen massed like blankets ofsnow on the river banks. On the water they move lightlyand gracefully. Their long necks and great size, taken inconnection with the mirage effects, sometimes seen in theirhaunts, deceive the eye, until in the distance they present theappearance of a fleet of ships under sail.

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-5^5:^.1/^^ *^^*^^^ o^^P,, ((.?^. PLATE XXI. —WHOOPING CRANE. Once a migrant through New England, now extirpated and nearlyextinct. (From a drawmg by Annie E. Chase.) SPECIES EXTINCT OR EXTIRPATED. 477 The Trumpeter is well able to protect itself and its youngfrom the smaller prowlers, for it can deliver a terrible blowwith its powerful wing. Although it lays five to seven eggs,some mortality must overtake the young, for comparativelyfew young birds of the year are seen in the fall flights. TheBald Eagle sometimes surprises it in flight, and, hurtling fromabove, strikes it to the earth; otherwise it seems to have fewnatural enemies powerful and swift enough to destroy it. Little is known definitely about the food of the Trumpeter.Dr. Hatch says that it feeds chiefly on vegetation, bothaquatic and terrestrial. It feeds like all Swans, by immersingits head and neck and taking its food from the bottom. Itsfood consists largely of water plants, but it also takes shell-fish and crustac

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