Bird-life - a guide to the study of our common birds (1901) (14752449655)

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Title: Bird-life : a guide to the study of our common birds

Year: 1901 (1900s)

Authors: Chapman, Frank M. (Frank Michler), 1864-1945 Seton, Ernest Thompson, 1860-1946

Subjects: Birds -- United States

Publisher: New York : D. Appleton

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oiiiiennis. slioit and squarc and is not used in PhrteLXXi. climbing. The bill is rather slender,but proves an effective instrument in removing insectseggs and larvae from crevices in the bark and even inexcavating a nesting hole in some decayed limb. Severalspecies also use it to crack or hatch nuts after theyhave wedged them in a convenient crevice. Of the three species of Nuthatches found in easternNorth America the White-breasted is the most commonand generally distributed, being a permanent resident fromFlorida to northern New England. Like many residentbirds, it nests early, the five to eight eggs being depos-ited about April 20. They are white, thickly andevenly spotted and speckled with reddish brown andlavender. This Nuthatchs usual call-note is a loud yank,yanJc, while its song is a singular, tenor hah-hah-hah-hah-hah. The Ked-breasted Nuthatch is a more northern birdthan its larger, white-breasted cousin. At sea level itnests from Maine northward, but in the higher parts of

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Plate LXXIII. Page 183. VEERY. Length, 7-50 inches. Upper parts, wings, and tail uniform light cinna-mon; breast buffy, light marked with cinnamon; beily white; sidesgrayish. GOLDEN-CROWNED KINGLET. 181 the Alleghanies it breeds as far southward as North Caro-lina, It comes to us from the nortli early in Septem- „ , ^ ^ ^ ber, and in the winter may be found in Bed-breasted . nr i Nuthatch varymg numbers from Massachusetts to Sitta canadensis. the Glllf St-ltCS. ItS Call-UOte is Plate LXXI. higher, thinner, and more drawledthan the vigorous yanh^ yank of the White-breastedNuthatch, and suggests the sound produced by a pennytrumpet. Kinglets, Gnatcatchers, etc. (Family Sylviid^.) Of the three subfamilies included in this familywe have representatives in eastern North America ofonly two—the two Kinglets of the subfamily Regu-lince and the Blue-gray Gnatcatcher of the subfamilyPoliojjtilincp. The Gnatcatcher is a southern bird, oc-curring only locally or as a straggler north of Maryla

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1901

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