Identifier: birdlifeguidech00chap (find matches)
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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summer they are not found south of northern New Jer-sey. They now become more social and may nest in ourgardens. Generally a coniferous tree is selected, and thenest of twigs, grasses, and rootlets is placed at a height ofabout twenty feet. The eggs, four to six in number, areblue, spotted with dusky about the larger end. Count yourself fortunate if a Purple Finch makes hishome near yours. He may appropriate a few buds andblossoms, but he will repay you with music and leave youhis debtor. His song is a sweet, flowing warble ; musicas natural as the rippling of a mountain brook. Some morning early in May you may meet the Kose- breasted Grosbeak, just returned from a winters sojourn in South America. Perhaps his fame Rose-breasted^^^^^^^^ ^^.^^ ^^^^^ preceded him, when you will Zameiodia in a mcasure be prepared for his charms ivdoviciana. of soug and plumige, and so miss the Plate Liv. )^eener pleasure of surprise ; but to me he appeared as a revelation, and after fifteen years I still
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Plate LIX. EED-EYED VIEEO. Pages 164, 165. Length, 6-25 inches. Crown gray, bordered by black and white ; back,wings, and tail olive-green ; under parts wuite. TELLOW-THEOATED VIEEO. Length, 5.95 inches. Crown and back greenish yellow; rump gray ;breast bright yellow; belly white; wing-bars white. TOWHEE. 151 find it difficult to believe that, -unkiiown to me, this beau-tiful creature could long have been an inhabitant of rajwoods. Tlie Grosbeak prefers young second growths, with aliberal proportion of oaks. In one of these trees he willdoubtless build his nest, a structure so lightly made thatone can almost see the blue, spotted eggs from below.The male is not only an ardent lover but an admirablehnsljand, and, unlike most brightly attired birds, shareswith his mate the task of incubation, and, it is said,sings while on the nest. His mate is so unlike him incolor that few would suspect their relationship. Shesuggests an overgrown female Purple Finch, with theeye-stripe especially pro

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