Handbook of Nature-study for Teachers and Parents, Based on the Cornell Nature-study Leaflets, with Much Additional Material and Many New Illustrations |
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... front edge lying almost parallel to the quill while those on the hind edge come off at a wide angle . The reason for this is easy to see , for this feather has to cut the air as the bird flies ; and if the barbs on the front side were ...
... front edge lying almost parallel to the quill while those on the hind edge come off at a wide angle . The reason for this is easy to see , for this feather has to cut the air as the bird flies ; and if the barbs on the front side were ...
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... front toes pointed up the tree . The foot is well adapted for clinging to the bark as the front toes are strong and the hind toe is very long and is armed with a strong claw . Thus equipped , this bird runs about on the tree so rapidly ...
... front toes pointed up the tree . The foot is well adapted for clinging to the bark as the front toes are strong and the hind toe is very long and is armed with a strong claw . Thus equipped , this bird runs about on the tree so rapidly ...
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... front toes of each foot directed downward when the bird alights head downward ? How does it manage its feet when in this position ? 4. What is the general color of the nuthatch above and below ? The color of the top and sides of head ...
... front toes of each foot directed downward when the bird alights head downward ? How does it manage its feet when in this position ? 4. What is the general color of the nuthatch above and below ? The color of the top and sides of head ...
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... front of the head is black and there is a black streak extending backward from the eye with a white streak above and also below it . The male has a vivid red patch on the back of the head , but his wife shows no such giddiness ; plain ...
... front of the head is black and there is a black streak extending backward from the eye with a white streak above and also below it . The male has a vivid red patch on the back of the head , but his wife shows no such giddiness ; plain ...
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... front of the door leading to the nest . After the pupils have made observations upon the habits of the house sparrow , they may find , in the following books and bulletins , facts which will teach further the economic importance of this ...
... front of the door leading to the nest . After the pupils have made observations upon the habits of the house sparrow , they may find , in the following books and bulletins , facts which will teach further the economic importance of this ...
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Popular passages
Page 515 - She dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove, A Maid whom there were none to praise And very few to love : A violet by a mossy stone Half hidden from the eye! Fair as a star, when only one Is shining in the sky.
Page 491 - There's a dance of leaves in that aspen bower, There's a titter of winds in that beechen tree, There's a smile on the fruit and a smile on the flower, And a laugh from the brook that runs to the sea.
Page 850 - I am the daughter of earth and water, And the nursling of the sky ; I pass through the pores of the ocean and shores ; I change, but I cannot die. For after the rain when, with never a stain, The pavilion of heaven is bare, And the winds and sunbeams with their convex gleams, Build up the blue dome of air...
Page 493 - In all places, then, and in all seasons, Flowers expand their light and soul-like wings, Teaching us, by most persuasive reasons, How akin they are to human things.
Page 48 - Qualis spelunca subito commota columba, Cui domus et dulces latebroso in pumice nidi, Fertur in arva volans, plausumque exterrita pennis 215 Dat tecto ingentem, mox aere lapsa quieto Radit iter liquidum, celeres neque commovet alas : Sic Mnestheus, sic ipsa fuga secat ultima Pristis Aequora, sic illam fert impetus ipse volantem.
Page 778 - As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste.
Page 777 - I care not how men trace their ancestry, To ape or Adam ; let them please their whim ; But I in June am midway to believe A tree among my far progenitors, Such sympathy is mine with all the race, Such mutual recognition vaguely sweet There is between us.
Page 683 - O fruit loved of boyhood! the old days recalling, When wood-grapes were purpling and brown nuts were falling! When wild, ugly faces we carved in its skin, Glaring out through the dark with a candle within! When we laughed round the corn-heap, with hearts all in tune, Our chair a broad pumpkin, — our lantern the moon, Telling tales of the fairy who travelled like steam, In a pumpkin-shell coach with two rats for her team!
Page 837 - cretaceous epoch," not one of the present great physical features of the globe was in existence. Our great mountain ranges, Pyrenees, Alps, Himalayas, Andes, have all been upheaved since the chalk was deposited, and the cretaceous sea flowed over the sites of Sinai and Ararat. All this is certain, because rocks of cretaceous, or still later, date have shared in the elevatory movements...
Page 913 - And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days ; Then Heaven tries the earth if it be in tune, And over it softly her warm ear lays: Whether we look, or whether we listen, We hear life murmur or see it glisten; Every clod feels a stir of might, An instinct within it that reaches and towers, And, groping blindly above it for light, Climbs to a soul in grass and flowers...