How to Tell the Birds from the Flowers: A Manual of Flornithology for Beginners


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This Novel is a collection of poems by scientist Robert Williams Wood, themed on nature. The poems explore the distinguishing features between birds and the flowers that resemble them, picking a pair comprising of one each to create a play on words. Some of the matched pairs are: 'The carrot and the parrot', 'the pelican and the panicle', 'the cowbird and the cowslip' and 'the tern and the turnip.' The book is illustrated with drawings.
















How to tell the Birds from the Flowers, and other Wood-cuts


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How to tell the Birds from the Flowers, and other Wood-cuts is a book by Robert Williams Wood. It presents the reader with a manual for flornithology; the classification of the resemblance between certain birds and flowers.




How to Tell the Birds from the Flowers


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How to Tell the Birds from the Flowers Robert Williams Wood Burr. Bird. The Bird and the Burdock. Who is there who has never heard, About the Burdock and the Bird? And yet how very very few, Discriminate between the two, While even Mr. Burbank can't Transform a Bird into a Plant! The Clover. The Plover. The Plover and the Clover can be told apart with ease, By paying close attention to the habits of the Bees, For en-to-molo-gists aver, the Bee can be in Clover, While ety-molo-gists concur, there is no B in Plover. The Crow. The Crocus. Some are unable, as you know, To tell the Crocus from the Crow; The reason why is just because They are not versed in Nature's laws. The noisy, cawing Crows all come, Obedient to the Cro'custom, A large Crow Caw-cus to convoke. You never hear the Crocus croak! The Rue. The Rooster. Of Rooster the rudiment clearly is "Roo," And the bird from the plant very probably grew. You can easily tell them apart without fail, By merely observing the Rue lacks de-tail. The Parrot. The Carrot. We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.




How to Tell the Birds from the Flowers


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"In a series of clever nonsense verses, the author gives directions by which any one can distinguish the bird from the flower that sounds like it." -New York Times "Obviously a satire directed against the sentimental nature-study literature which sometimes masquerades as scientific teaching, particularly in the United States." -Nature "Professor Robert W. Wood, of Johns Hopkins University, author of an advanced treatise on the theory of light and various scientific papers, such as the 'Fluorescence and Magnetic Rotation Spectra of Sodium Vapor and Their Analysis,' might claim close affinity to Lewis Carroll, the profound mathematician and creator of the inimitable 'Alice in Wonderland.' Nature students who have hitherto wrestled with the annoying problem of differentiating between such homologous species as the crow and the crocus, the parrot and the carrot, the cow-bird and the cowslip, the blue mountain glory and the blue morning glory, will hail this little volume with shouts of joy. No longer need one worry over the close resemblance of the pecan to the toucan." -The Publisher




How to Tell the Birds from the Flowers


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A collection of humorous poems explaining the differences between certain birds and plants they resemble.