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Pàgina 46 - The bluebird carries the sky on his back. The tanager flies through the green foliage as if it would ignite the leaves. If I wish for a horse-hair for my compass-sight I must go to the stable; but the hair-bird, with her sharp eyes, goes to the road.
Pàgina 57 - ... lichen that vegetates on old trees and fences, thickly glued on with the saliva of the bird, giving firmness and consistency to the whole, as well as keeping out moisture. Within this are thick, matted layers of the fine wings of certain flying seeds, closely laid together ; and lastly, the downy substance from the great mullein, and from the stalks of the common fern, lines the whole.
Pàgina 40 - Cocoa mixed with Starch, Arrowroot or Sugar, and is therefore far more economical, costing less than one cent a cup. It is delicious, nourishing, strengthening, EASILY DIGESTED, and admirably adapted for invalids as well as for persons in health. Sold by Grocers everywhere.
Pàgina 56 - ... bush. It is built in the form of an inverted cone, or funnel, the bottom thickly bedded with dry beech leaves, the sides formed of the dry bark of strong weeds, lined within with fine dry grass. These materials are not placed in the usual manner circularly, but shelving downwards on all sides from the top; the mouth being wide, the bottom very narrow, filled with leaves, and the eggs or young occupying the middle.
Pàgina 40 - It has more than three times the strength of Cocoa mixed with Starch, Arrowroot or Sugar, and is therefore far more economical, costing less than one cent a cup. It is delicious, nourishing, strengthening, EASILY DIGESTED, and admirably adapted for invalids as well as for persons in health.
Pàgina 51 - Redstart nest-building.) and durable ; the exterior is formed of layers of silkweed lint, glutinously though slightly attached to the supporting twig, mixed with some slender strips of fine bark and pine leaves and thickly bedded with the down of willows, the Nankeen wool of the Virginia...
Pàgina 59 - Why pay $100 per year for your Life Insurance when the same amount of insurance can be had in one of the strongest Life Insurance Companies in the world for $5O?
Pàgina 48 - It left me hardly time to guess its object, but quickly thrust its head through the silken walls and took its pick of the fattest caterpillars in the squirming interior, carrying them to what it evidently considered as more appropriate surroundings in the hangnest above. I once found a nest of the red-eye which exhibited a marked entomological preference, being composed largely of the hairy cocoons of the small tussock moth, and conspicuously decorated with a hundred or more of the black skins of...
Pàgina 49 - Redwing. as a pendant, and dangling from this a string of brilliants that glittered like emeralds, and which proved to be three dead bluebottle flies entangled in spider silk. Whether or not the bird had appreciated the especial attractions of some particular remnant of cob-web thus enriched, or had deliberately adjusted the flies by way of ornament, I could not A Specialist in Snake-skins (the Crested Flycatcher) determine.
Pàgina 43 - I pulled this floss from its round tough cocoon suspended among the weeds, and wondered whether the loom might not yet prove its utility ! And here it is, adjusted with artful design just where its need is most apparent, and its strength recommends it, lapping and overlapping the forks and extending across the span from twig to twig where it is interwoven and twisted with strong strips of bark and long wisps from the stalk of the milkweed, or similar hempen substance. The economy of this spider silk...