Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 93
ven see him plunge headlong into thewater and come out with a gleaming shinerin his big bill. In the marshes are the beau-tiful clear-piping redwings and the chucklingmarsh-wrens, and you may startle a big brownbittern. Along the roadways the vesper-spar-rows may fly ahead of you, showing their… … THE RED-SHOULDERED BLACKBIRD MAKES MUSIC INTHE MARSHES. NATURE AND SCIENCE FOR YOUNG FOLKS. 649 naturally into families as much by similar hab-its as by what scientific men call character.Thus, flycatchers dart out and catch insects onthe wing, with a snap of the bill, returning totheir perch to…
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