Birds and nature

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Identifier: birdsnature141903chic (find matches)
Title: Birds and nature
Year: 1900 (1900s)
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Subjects: Birds Natural history
Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : A.W. Mumford, Publisher
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Institution Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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600 COPYR1SHT 1903, BY A. w. MUMf-OBD, CHICASO CHANTARELLE (Edible).(Cantharellus cibarius). THE CHANTARELLE. (Cantharellus cibarius.) I have witnessed whole hundred-weights of rich, wholesome diet rottingunder trees; woods teeming with food,and not one hand to gather it; and this,perhaps, in the midst of a potato-blight,poverty and all manner of privations, andpublic prayers against imminent famine.Thus writes Dr. C. D. Badham regardingthe popular feeling against fungi inGreat Britain. To a large extent, hiswords are also applicable to people ofour own country. So nutritious are someof the mushrooms that Dr. Badham hasspoken of them as pounds innumerableof extempore beefsteaks. He also speaksof the beautiful yellow Chantarelle, thatkalon kaigothon of diet, growing by thebushel, and no basket but our own topick up a few specimens on our way. The Chantarelle is a well-known andrather common mushroom which growsquite abundantly in woods of spruce andfir, and in wet seasons also in the f

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