. Alabama bird day book . 1 ^M PtT 1 1 1 Q ? o •J C _ « Alabama, 1913. 53 SPRING WINDS. ♦©■♦- WHEN winds of March like silvery trumpets blow,The whole dead world awakens with new birth;The sun smiles forth, and verdant grasses growGreen mantling the earth. When winds of April flute like pipes of Pan, The brooks and rills awake to dance and sing;The birds across the continents wide span Come back on eager when the winds of May all laugh in glee, Ah, then, like Orpheus from heavens bowers,The spring leads back to earth with melody The thronging, thronging flowers! —Edward Wilbur Mason.

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. Alabama bird day book . 1 ^M PtT 1 1 1 Q ? o •J C _ « Alabama, 1913. 53 SPRING WINDS. ♦©■♦- WHEN winds of March like silvery trumpets blow,The whole dead world awakens with new birth;The sun smiles forth, and verdant grasses growGreen mantling the earth. When winds of April flute like pipes of Pan, The brooks and rills awake to dance and sing;The birds across the continents wide span Come back on eager when the winds of May all laugh in glee, Ah, then, like Orpheus from heavens bowers,The spring leads back to earth with melody The thronging, thronging flowers! —Edward Wilbur Mason. % THE WOOD-DUCK. ♦&♦- THE beauty of the Wood-Duck, or Summer-Duck, depends al-most wholly upon its brilliantly colored plumage; for its formis quite commonplace. It may be wrong to make a cold-bloodedanalysis of its points, but for beauty of form, and the neck of thisbird is too small and too short, its head is too large, and its body isvery ordinary. Its plumage, however, presents a color-scheme ofbri

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