Bird-life - a guide to the study of our common birds (1901) (14772310243)

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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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it is known only as a migrant. Tackycinda hicoior. In the wilder part of its range it nests (Frontispiece.) ;j^ hollow trces ; in the more settledportions it uses bird-boxes. During recent years, as Mr.Brewster has remarked, the always-present House Spar-row has pre-empted the former abodes of the Tree Swal-low, so that it no longer nests about our homes; but asa migrant its numbers are undiminished, and it is prob-ably our most abundant Swallow. Being the only Swallow to winter in the easternUnited States, the Tree Swallow is the first to arrive inthe spring, coming to us from Florida early in April. Itis also the last of its family to leave us in the fall, oftenremaining near Eew York citv until October 20. Immature birds have the upper parts brownish grayinstead of shining steel-blue, as in the adult, but in eitherplumage the bird may be known by its puie white underpirts, which have given to it the name of White-belliedSwallow. In the northern United States Martins are very local.

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Plate LXIII. Page 170. OVEN-BIKD. Length, 6-15 inches. Crown reddish brown, bordered by black; back,wings, and tail olive-green; under parts black and white. CEDAR WAXWIXG. 161 They have long since abandoned their habit of building in hollow trees, and now nest only about houses or in lawns whore gourds or boxes are ei-ected for Purple Martin, ^j^^-^ occupation. To these they return Progne suoif<. ^ . . . , year after year, arriving m the springabout April 25 and remaining until September. Themale is uniform steel-blue, and appears black in the air;the female is grayish, tinged with steel-bhie above; thebreast is gray, the belly white. This is the largest ofour Swallows, measuring eight inches in length. Waxwings. (Family Ampelid^.) One of the two species of Waxwing is a bird of the farNorth; the other, our Cedar Waxwing, is found through-Cedar Waxwing, out North America. Waxwings pos-Ampeiis cedrurum. scss iu an uuusual dcgrcc two charac- Piate L\ II. teristics which are not suppo

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