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How to Tell the Birds from the Flowers and Other Woodcuts
Capítulos (51)
- Intro‑duc‑tion 0:00
- Burr; Bird 1:00
- The Crow; The Crocus 1:19
- The Clover; The Plover 1:46
- The Ole Gander; The Oleander 2:06
- The Hen; The Lichen 2:24
- The Pelican; The Panicle 2:56
- The Pea; The Pewee 3:19
- The Parrot; The Carrot 3:43
- The Rue; The Rooster 4:02
- The Hawk; The Hollyhock 4:34
- The Pecan; The Toucan 4:52
- The Cat‑bird; The Cat‑nip 5:17
- The Quail; The Kale 5:36
- The Auk; The Orchid 5:57
- The Cow Bird; The Cowslip 6:24
- The Butter‑ball; The Butter‑cup 6:49
- The Roc; The Shamrock 7:12
- A Sparrer; Asparagus 7:33
- The Blue Mountain Lory; The Blue Morning Glory 7:57
- The Tern; The Turnip 8:25
- The Larks; The Larkspur 9:07
- Cross Bill; Sweet William 9:27
- The Ibis; The ’Ibiscus 9:59
- The Pipe; The Snipe 10:31
- The Jay; The Bay 10:45
- The Gent‑ians; The Lady‑bird 11:07
- Puffin; Nuffin 11:30
- The Bee; The Beet; The Beetle 11:44
- The Bunny; The Tunny 12:07
- The Puss; The Octo‑pus 12:27
- The Eel; The Eelephant 12:51
- The Ant; The Pheas‑ant 13:11
- The Hare; The Harrier 13:32
- The Pen‑guin; The Sword‑fish 14:01
- The Gnu; The Newt 14:23
- The Ray; The Raven 15:14
- The Ape; The Grape 16:07
- The Doe; The Dodo 16:33
- The Pipe‑fish; The Sea‑gar 16:57
- The Elk; The Whelk 17:15
- The P‑cock; The Q‑cumber 17:34
- The Sloe; The Sloth 17:57
- The Cow; The Cowry 18:18
- The Antelope; The Cantelope 18:33
- The Pansy; The Chim‑pansy 19:00
- Naught; Nautilus 19:26
- The Coot; The Bandicoot 19:53
- The Pitcher Plant; The Fly‑catcher 20:28
- The Yellow‑hammer; The Saw‑fish 20:55
- Author’s Add‑end‑’em 21:44
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The Nature Fakers controversy, also called the “War of the Naturalists,” was an early 20th-century American debate over sentimentality versus accuracy in nature writing. The controversy was kicked off in 1903 when naturalist and writer John Burroughs published his article “Real and Sham Natural History” in The Atlantic Monthly, lambasting popular nature writers for their overly anthropomorphic depictions of wildlife and denouncing the genre of realistic animal fiction as the “yellow journalism of the woods.”
Robert Williams Wood, inspired by the nature fakers controversy, published How to Tell the Birds from the Flowers: A Manual of Flornithology for Beginners in 1907, followed by Animal Analogues in 1908. The books collect illustrated poems comparing plants and animals with similar names, satirizing the uninformed, anthropomorphized style of nature writing. The Nature Fakers controversy is referenced most explicitly in his poem “The Yellow‑hammer; The Saw‑fish.”
In 1917, the books were combined into How to Tell the Birds from the Flowers and Other Woodcuts: A Revised Manual of Flornithology for Beginners. The revised edition included two new poems, removed four poems from Animal Analogues, and revised the text and illustrations of a number of others. This Standard Ebooks edition restores the missing poems from Animal Analogues.