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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... shape are for the purpose of making birds more beautiful ; while in others , the color of the feathers protects them from the observation of their enemies . Methods - While parts of this lesson relating to fowls , may be given in ...
... shape are for the purpose of making birds more beautiful ; while in others , the color of the feathers protects them from the observation of their enemies . Methods - While parts of this lesson relating to fowls , may be given in ...
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... shape of the canary's beak . Is it long and strong like a robin's ? Is it wide and sharp so that it can shell seeds ? If you should put an insect in the cage would the canary eat it ? 7. Why do we pieces of the bone . give the canary ...
... shape of the canary's beak . Is it long and strong like a robin's ? Is it wide and sharp so that it can shell seeds ? If you should put an insect in the cage would the canary eat it ? 7. Why do we pieces of the bone . give the canary ...
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... shape of the tail and how is it adapted to assist ? 7. What does the downy eat and where does it find its Describe how it gets at its food . What is the shape of its bill and it fitted for getting the food ? Tell how the downy's tongue ...
... shape of the tail and how is it adapted to assist ? 7. What does the downy eat and where does it find its Describe how it gets at its food . What is the shape of its bill and it fitted for getting the food ? Tell how the downy's tongue ...
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... shape compared to the robin ; the color and shape of head , beak , wings , tail , breast and under parts . 5. Describe its peculiar actions and its characteristic movements . 6. Where do catbirds build their nests ? How high from the ...
... shape compared to the robin ; the color and shape of head , beak , wings , tail , breast and under parts . 5. Describe its peculiar actions and its characteristic movements . 6. Where do catbirds build their nests ? How high from the ...
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... shape of the bodies of these two birds ; also in the size and shape of feet and beaks and explain why they are so different in form . What is there peculiar about the kingfisher's feet ? Do you know which two toes are grown together ? 5 ...
... shape of the bodies of these two birds ; also in the size and shape of feet and beaks and explain why they are so different in form . What is there peculiar about the kingfisher's feet ? Do you know which two toes are grown together ? 5 ...
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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...