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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 724

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in speeddoes not mean that the robin flies faster, but thatits rests are shorter. The same authority tells us that, when travel-ing from the Gulf of Mexico to Minnesota, black-poll warblers average only thirty to thirty-fivemiles a day, but before they reach Alaska, theyhave raised this rate to two… … GROSBEAKS. Like flowers and trees, birds are closely depen-dent on the weather. How little change there isfor weeks after the first skunk-cabbage is seen,or the first pussy-willow blooms ! Then as thedays grow warmer, the woods are suddenly filledwith flowers and the trees thickly covered…

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