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Title: The Audubon magazine
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: National Audubon Society
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: (New York, N.Y. : Forest and Stream Publishing Co.)
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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birds destroyand preaches a sermon on the folly andwickedness of destroying them, which mightbe read with profit by the thoughtless.He concludes with these forcible words: Things both useful and beautiful are notso common that we can afford to sacrificethem in vain. The rowdy boys and all thecrew of tramps and potters of the gun whoshoot Swallows for sport may be seriouslyadmonished that these birds are worthmore to society than their idle viciousselves. The Cliff Swallow is 5^3 inches in lengthand about 12 in extent of wings. Thetop of the head, a spot on the throat andthe back, are lustrous steel blue. A collar,grayish brown, separates the blue-black ofthe head and back. Forehead marked witha semilunar band of white or brownish red.Chin, throat and sides of head brownishred. Other under parts rusty gray, fadingto white on the belly. Wings and tailbrownish black. Bill black, feet brown.The male and female are alike. The youngare paler throughout, and lack the blackspot on the throat.
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Beam of the Sun, come here. I will NOT HARM YOU. PRINCESS RUBY-THROAT. THE STORY OF A HUMMINGBIRD. THE Princess Ruby-Throat belongedto a certain race of fairies who livedin the most beautiful country in the world.Cold and frost were unknown in this fairland, and its inhabitants had nothing to dobut enjoy themselves continually, for naturefurnished such an abundance of food thatwork was unknown. It was not even necessary to build housesto live in, for the trees and flowers affordedsuch pleasant places of retreat that, had itnot been for the needs of the fairy babies,no one would ever have thought of makingseparate homes. As it was, the dwellings consisted of onlyone room, which was so tiny that it couldjust hold one mother fairy and two babiescomfortably, and they were never used verymuch after the children grew large enough to fly about and choose their own places ofresort. This race was considered the most beau-tiful of all the races of fairies, and indeedthey ranked so high in this

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