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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



July, 1 9 6 



%\>t %m Map to 



Mature 



John Burroughs tells us that most of our song birds have three notes, expressive of love, 

 alarm and fellowship. In the bluebird, for instance, he says : " I recognize a simple plaintive call 

 uttered in the air by the migrating birds, both fall and spring, and which is like the word 'pure,' 

 'pure'; then the animated warbling calls and twitterings, during the mating season, which are 

 uttered in a fond, reassuring tone, usually accompanied by that pretty wing gesture ; then the 

 call of alarm when some enemy approaches the nest, or a hawk appears. This last note is soft 

 like the other, but the tone is different : it is sorrowful and apprehensive." 



Any one who has had even a little dip into the delights of nature, knows with what a thrill 

 each bird friend is welcomed back in the spring, and is watched during the summer, and how much 

 a friendship with some of the flowers, and trees and insects, has added to the joy of living. 



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Nature Club is is to fur- IJ^^HrW^r"' \'? *3§lHH*^B rea % a correspondence 



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Study at Corn.-ll University 



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 Dr. B. W. Evermann 



U. S. Bureau of Fisheries 



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New York Zoological Park 



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 A. Radclyffe Dugmore 

 Dr. L. O. Howard 



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