The Bookshelf for boys and girls: Nature and Outdoor Life part 3 (1912)
University Society, New York · New York : University Society · leaf 21
swer. But we do know thatone of the most remarkable birds in our countryis this California woodpecker, and that he is wellentitled to his Mexican name of cl carpintero —the carpenter-bird. Fred A. Ober. ABOUT HUMMING-BIRDS V One day in a certain June an excited lad broughtto his mother a young… … shut out mosquitoes and other annoying insects,the house was completely barricaded with wiregauze, like one of Sir Humphry Davys safety-lamps. Wire windows and wire doors, from gar-ret to cellar,made the cot-tage a safe andspacious cagewhere the birdcould roam atwill. It was caughton the very…
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