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About The Alliance herald. (Alliance, Box Butte County, Neb.) 1902-1922 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 25, 1910)
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AEROPLANE m IN DAILY FLIGHTS LOMBARDO SYMPHONY BAND AND OPERA CONCERT COMPANY GREAT RACES PATTERSON SHOWS BASE BALL'..FinrwnrK NIGHT RACES -VAUDEVILLE 0&S, mJHm If I " ra- ' I lj"J mj CHmI liowEteffi English Singing Birds RtprlnUd from an article by Theodore Ttooievelt In The Outlook, by special arrangement with The Outlook, of which Theodore Roosevolt la Contributing; Editor. Copyright, 1910, by The Outlook Company. All Rights Reserved. Llko most Amoricans Interested In birds and books, I know a good deal about English birds as they appear In books. I know the lark of Shake spearo and Shelley and tho Ettrlck Shepherd; I know tho lnghtlngalo of Milton and Keats; I know Words worth's cuckoo; I know mavis and medio singing In tho merry green wood of tho old ballads; I know Jenny Wren and Cock Robin of the nursery books. Theroforo I have always much desired to hoar the birds In real life; and the opportunity offerod last Juno. As I could snatch but a few hours from a very exacting round of pleasures and duties, it was necessary for mo to be with somo companion who could Iden tify both song and singer. In Sir Edward drey, a keen lover of outdoor lifo In all its phases, and a delight ful companion, who knows the songs and ways of English birda as vory fow do know them, I found the best pos sible guide. Wo left London on tho morning of June 9, 24 hours beforo I sailed from Southampton. Oettlng off tho train at Basingstoke, wo drove to tho pretty, smiling valley of tho Itchen. Here wo tramped for three or four hours, then again drove, this time to the edge of tho Now Forost, where wo first took tea at an inn, and thon tramped through the forest to an Inn on its oth er side, at Drockenhurst. At tho con clusion of our walk my companion mado a list of the birds wo had seen, putting an asterisk opposlto thoso which we had hoard sing. Thero wero 41 of the former and 23 of the latter, as follows: Thrush, 'Blackbird. 'Lark. Yellow Hammer, Robin, Wren, Qoldon Crested Wren, Goldfinch, 'Greenfinch, Pied Wagtail, Sparrow, Dunnock (Hodgo Accentor), Missel Thrush, Starling, Rook, Jackdaw, 'Black Cap, Garden Warbler, Willow Warbler, Chtft Chaff, Wood Warbler. Tree Creopor, Reod Bunting, Sedgo War bler, Coot, Water Hon, Little Grebe (Dabchick), Tuftod Duck, Wood Pi geon, Stock Dove, Turtlo Dove, Pee wit, Tit (?Coal Tit), Cuckoo, Night Jar, Swallow, MarUn. Swift. Pheasant, Partridge. Tho bird that most impressed me on my walk was tho blackbird. I had already heard nightingales in nbun danco near Lake Como, and had also listened to larks, but 1 had never heard eithor tho blackbird, tho song thrush, or tho black cap warbler; and while I know all threo wore good singers, I did not know what really beau tiful singers they wore. Blackbirds woro vory abundant, and they played a prominent part In the chorus which we heard throughout the day on overy hand, though perhaps loudest tho fol lowing morning at dawn. In its habits and manners, tho blackbird strikingly resembles our American robin, and In doed looks exactly like a robin, with a yellow bill and coal-black plumage. It bops everywhere over the lawns, just as our robin does, and It lives In nests in the gardens in the same fash Ion. Its song has a general resem blance to that of our robin, but many of the notes are far more musical, more like those of our wood thrush. Indeed thero were Individuals among thoso we heard certain or whose notes seemed to me almost to equal In point of melody tho chimes of the wood thrush; and the highest possible praise for any song bird is to liken its song to that of tho wood thrush or hermit thrush. I certainly do not think that the blackbird has received full Justice In the books. I know that it was a singer, but I really had no Idea how flno a singer he was. I suppose one of hlJ troubles has been his name, Just as with our own cat bird. When he appears in the ballads as the merle, bracketed with bis cousin, the mavis, the Bong thrush, it Is far easier to rec- Ignlzo him as the master singer that he Is. It is a fine thing for England to have such an asset of the country side, a bird so common, so much In evi dence, bo fearless, and Buch a really beautiful singer. Tho most musical singer we heard was the black cap warbler. To my my ear Its song seemed more musical than that of the nightingale. It was astonishingly powerful for so small a bird; in volume and continuity It does not come up to the songs of the thrushes and of certain other birds, but In quality, as an Isolated bit of melody, It can hardly bo surpassed. Among the minor singers the robin was noUceable. Vc nil know this pretty little bird from the books, and I was prepared to And him as friendly and attractive as he proved to be. but I had not realized how well he sang. No Cause for Alarm. "I have decided," said the theatrical manager, "to give you a trial, Miss Arlington. Please bo ready to begin rehearsing Monday afternoon." Thank you so much. But before we go any further I must Inform you that I shall positively refuso to wear tights or a gown that Is cut low In the nock." "Oh, that's all right. In the part that I'm going to glvu you, you will merely bavo to stand behind a shed and help to scream when the cyclone trlkes town." It was not a loud song, but very mu sical and attractive, and tho bird is said to sing practically all through the year. Tho song of tho wron inter ested mo much, because It was not In tho least llko that of our house wrons, but, on the contrary, like that of our winter wren. The themo is tho same astho winter wren's, but the song did not seem to me to bo so brilliantly mu sical as that of tho Uny singer of the north woods. The sedge warbler sang In the thick roeds a mocking vontrllo qulal lay, which reminded me at times of the less pronounced parts of our yellow breasted chat's song. The cuckoo's cry was singularly attractive and musical, far moro so than tho rolling, many times repeated, note of our rain-crow. Ton days later, at Sagamore Hill, I was among my own birds, and was much interested as I listened to and looked at them In remembering the notes and actions of the birds I had seen in England. On tho evening of thq first day I sat In my rocking chair on tho broad veranda, looking across the sound towards the glory of tho sunset. Tho thickly grassed hill sido sloped down In front of me to a bolt of forest from which roso tho golden, leisurely chiming of the wood thrushes, chanting their vespers; through the still air camo tho warble of vlreo and tnnager; and after night fall we heard the flight song of an oven bird from the same belt of tim ber. Overhead an oriolo Bang In tho weoping elm, now and then breaking his song to scold llko an overgrown wren. Song sparrows and cat birds sang In tho shrubbery; one robin had built its nest over the front, and ono over the back door, and there was a chippy's nest In the wisteria vino by tho porch. During the next 24 hours I saw and heard, either right around tho house or while walking down to batho through the woods, tho following 42 birds: Little Green Heron, Quail, Red Tail ed Hawk, Yellow Billed Cuckoo, Kingfisher, Flicker, Hummingbird, Swift, Meadow Lark, Red Winged Blackbird, Sharp Tailed Finch, Song Sparrow, Chipping Sparrow Bush Sparrow, Purple Finch, Baltimore Oriolo, Cowbuntlng, Robin, Scarlet Thrush, Thrasher, Cat Bird. Scarlet Tanager, Red-Eyed Vlreo, Yellow War bler, Black-Throated Green Warbler, King Bird, Wood Pewee, Crow. Bluo Jay, Cedar Bird, Maryland Yellow Throat, Chickadee, Black and White Creeper, Barn Swallow, White Breasted Swallow, Oven Bird, Thistleflnch, Ves porflnch, Indigo Bunting, Towhee, Grasshopper Sparrow and Screech Owl. I sent the companion of my English walk John Burroughs' "Birds and Poets." John BurrouRhs' life work is beginning to have Its full effect in many different lines. When he first wrote there were few men of letters In our country who knew nature at first hand. Now there are many who delight In our birds, who know their songs, who keenly love all that belongs to out-of-doors life. For instance, Mad ison Caweln and Ernest McGaffy have for a number of years written of our woods and fields, of the birds and the flowers, as only those can write who join to love of nature the gift of ob servation and the gift or description. Mr. Caweln Is a Kentuckian; and an other Kentucklan, Miss Julia Stockton Dlnsmore, in the little volume of poems which she has just published, Includes many which describe with beauty and charm, tho sights and sounds so dear to nil of us who know American country life. Miss Dlnsmore knows Kentucky, and the gulf coast of Louisiana, and the great plains of North Dakota; and she knows also the regions that He outside of what can be seen with material vision. For years in our family we have had some of her poems In the scrap book cut from nowspapers when we knew nothing about her except the initials signed In the verses. Only one who sees with tho eyes of the spirit as well as the eyes of tho body could have written the "Threnody," curiously at tracUve in its simplicity and pathos, with which the little book opens. It contains many poems that mako a sim ilar appeal. The writer knows blue bird and robin, redbird and field lark and whlppoorwlll, just as she knows southern rivers and western plains; she knows rushing winds and running waters and the sights and sounds ol lonely places; and moreovor, she know and almost tells thoso hidden things of the heart which never find complete utterance. THEODORE ROOSEVELT Still the 400. Ward They Bay there are about 275,000 automobiles owned by individ uals in tho United States, or one foi overy 400 population." McAllister Well, are you In the 400 yetT Yonkers Statesmen. Filling Up. "What do you do when you have no nows? It must be hard to fill up." "When we have no news," explained the New York Journalist, "we use larc er type." v. t v - McCLUER'S Real Oriental Matting- Suit Cases; Traveling- Bags, 16 and 18 inches. Just the thing for traveling. Durable and light weight. E. I. 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