Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836-1907 · Boston, CT : Hall and Locke · leaf 107
en ofthe farmer is too frequently called upon to supply thisextra demand. But of all our animals it seems to me the birds havesolved the winter problem best. Possessing an endur-ing power of flight and a knowledge of a southernsunny sky, beneath which food is plentiful, they aloneof all the living… … A Wolf. as the snow-bird and song sparrow; on flesh, as thehawks and crows; or on burrowing insects, as the nut-hatches and woodpeckers. Such are some of the solutions to the problem of lifein winter which the plants and animals about ushave worked out; such some of the forms which theyundergo ;…
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