Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1904-09-06

among their best men their represent
atives at the fair. The picked men Of
the world are here, making this the
grandest educational project ever
brought to coRsummation.
But to get back to North Carolina
birds. Here are the fishers-the gulls,
the terms or pointed bill gulls, the
looms and gannets, the last huge white
birds. The feet are the distinguishing
features" of these birds. The cor
morant has an extra spread Of web
bling between his four toes, being, in
the language OF the natural history,
totipalmate, or full webbed, while the
grebes are merely lobe footed-a little
webbing on each toe. Even in lower
animal life nature bestows abundance
on some CT her children and handicaps
others.
Here, too, is the Jaeger, or hunting
gull, not fisherman, but living on fish,
which he obtains in the same way as
some men obtain a living-by taking
IL from others. When he sees the
fisher gull rise from the waters with
a live morsel he gives chase till the
rightful owner drops it; then he dashes
down and grabs it midair before IL
can strike water The bald eagle here
is the same sort of bird. He sits on q
limb till a fishhawk makes a catch.
ther on swift wing soon claims the
mouthful for himself. No doubt he
goes home and tells what a great
fisherman he is. A highwayman usual
ly has other faults. Therefore, my chill
dren, give no credence to fish stories
told by bald eagles.
Did you ever connect aigrst, that
beautiful and delicate Elementary
white feather which stands up so
straight in milady's hat, with egret. the
white heron? In North Cardinals ex-
hibit OF herons are the great white
egret and the little egret. or snowy her
on. Aigrets were in such demand that
these beautiful birds became almost ex-
tinct Egrets are now protected by law
in North Carolina and are. again seen
with more frequency. All herons have
aigret decorations Of some sort some
where, but the white ones are most
sought after.
/ cannot drop the herons till 1 call
your attention to the bigness Of the
heron family, from the big blue heron
three feet tall, with a wing spread Of
six feet, to the least bittern but ten
inches high and weighing but an ounce
or two. Eleven kinds are here shown
In one case. The wood ibis is full
yard high and finely feathered.
/ was an intense admirer OF the sand
piper when a small boy. He is feet Of
foot and quick of wing and the best ex-
ample of alertness that one meets along
the shore He has an ungraceful bob.
and his legs are so thin as to be almost
invisible at the distance which he
deems safe but he is trim and 1.-THE.
and his little piping note lends romance
to shore life One does not easily for.
get his boyhood associates. these birds
of the beach and marsh all resDinnIent
of boyhood and vacation khe
snipes and rails and the blackbirds
with scratchy notes-counterfeit notes.
in fact The purple gallinule has per
haps the richest plumage Of the Caro-
lima birds. color note that would be
brilliant on any landscape.
The oyster catcher is so named be-
cause he has not merely a taste for
shellfsh, but a chisel bill with perpen-
dicular blade with which to open-not
oysters. but the weaker bivalves. The
turnstone is q beach bird which gets its
living by turning small stones along the
shore and eating the insects that
thought themselves safe in such seclu-
sion.
II you have had sora on toast at any
swell restaurant or cafe you will at
once recognize this one among the Car
olina birds. Though quite unlike the
reedbird or bobolink. their names Of
ten get mixed on the menu. as their
bodies do IN the chefs kitchen
Here are two Of the larger rsils-the
clapper rail in gray Of the salt marshes.
whose notes are succession OF reso-
nant clippings, and the brown king
rail OF the fresh marshes.
Perhaps we need no warning that we
do not always get canvasback duck
when ii is on the bill Of fare. North
Carolina. one OF the favored homes of
this epicurean delicacy. includes TWEEN
ty-four kinds OF ducks in her game
bird display. but the canvasback Is
king among them, the best and. Of
course the scarcest one of the highest
priced edibles found in an American
market.
Five varieties OF wild geese are In
this exhibit, and the whistling swan.
large and beautiful, in the favored at
titude OF taxidermy. makes one rub his
eyes and wonder why he has not him
self seen these great wild birds in life.
Fair Grounds. st. Louis.
Novel Slang Term.