Outing

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Identifier: outing55newy (find matches)
Title: Outing
Year: 1885 (1880s)
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Subjects: Leisure Sports Travel
Publisher: (New York : Outing Pub. Co.)
Contributing Library: Tisch Library
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A WINTER HILLSIDE IN CONNECTICUT WITH ITS GLITTERINGCASCADES OF ICE.
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THE PRETTY TREE SPARROW IS LIKELY TO BE THE MOST FREQUENT GUEST IN COLD WEATHER. loggerhead shrike, Carolina wren,tufted titmouse, and brown-headednuthatch. A considerable number ofour hardier Northern summer birds arealso found. The frosts are only occa-sional and moderate, and the air is de-lightful—with all due respect to thebiting, exhilarating northwest zephyrsof the snow-bound regions beyond. When we get as far south as Florida,it seems like mockery to talk of winter.To be sure many of the birds havecrossed the sea to Central and SouthAmerica, yet there are many left. Thelittle ground doves are so quaint, thejays, including now the Florida jay,so abundant and saucy, and the shore birds, herons, ibis, and many waterfowl so interesting—save as thoughtlesstourists have exterminated them alongthe well-traveled routes, a crying abom-ination ! It is delightful to escape a month orso of the intense cold and wanderthrough the orange groves, the pineries,the swamps, or by the tepid o

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