Bird-life - a guide to the study of our common birds (1901) (14565754500)

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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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breakfast or supper, as the casemay be. The Chewinks nest is placed on the ground, often indried grass, beneath a tangle of running wild blackberry.The eggs, four or five in number, are white, finely andevenly speckled with reddish brown. There are three birds who sing not only through theheat of midsummer but are undaunted by the warmth ofa midday sun. They are the WoodflTin^y^^^ea. P^woe, the Ecd-eyed Vireo, and the In-digo-bird or Bunting. The Pewee andVireo, singing dreamily from the shady depths of a tree,carry the air to the hummed accompaniment of insects;but the Bunting, mounting to an upper branch, givesvoice to a tinkhng warble, more in keeping with thefreshness of early morning than the languor of noon.July, July, sum^ner-s^imme?s here; morning, noontide,evening, list to me^ he sings so rapidly that human tonguecan scarce enumerate the words fast enough to keep pacewith him. The Indigo-bird is in song when he comes toUs from the South early in May, but it is not until other

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Plate LVIII. Page 162. NORTHERN SHRIKE. Length, 10-30 inches. Adult, upper parts gray; tail black and white ;under parts white, with blackish bars; lores grayish; ear-covertsblack. Young, similar, but plumage washed with brownish. CARDmAL. 153 singers have dropped from tlie chorus that his voice be-comes conspicuous. Not far away his mate is doubtless sitting on her blu-ish white eggs in a nest low down in the crotch of a bush.He in his deep indigo costume may be easily identified,but she is a dull brownish bird, about the size of a Ca-nary, sparrowlike in appearance, though with unstreakedplumage, and a difficult bird to name, even when youhave a specimen in your hand, while in the bush, if silent,she is a puzzle. But she is far too good a mother not toprotest if you venture too near her home, and her sharppit ov jpeet usually calls her mate, whom you Avill recog-nize at once. The Cardinal is about the size of a Towhee, with plumage which, except for a black throat, is almost wholly

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