A Year with the BirdsEducational Publishing Company, 1889 - 317 pages |
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Page 12
... female by any superiority of plumage . He comes forth in the spring and takes his departure in the autumn in the same suit of russet and gray by which he is always identified . In March , before the violet has ventured to peep out from ...
... female by any superiority of plumage . He comes forth in the spring and takes his departure in the autumn in the same suit of russet and gray by which he is always identified . In March , before the violet has ventured to peep out from ...
Page 13
... female sits upon her nest of soft dry grass , containing four or five eggs of a green- ish - white surface covered with brownish specks . Begin- ning in April , she rears two and often three broods during the season , and her mate ...
... female sits upon her nest of soft dry grass , containing four or five eggs of a green- ish - white surface covered with brownish specks . Begin- ning in April , she rears two and often three broods during the season , and her mate ...
Page 20
... female does not build her nest before the first broods of the Robin and the Song - Sparrow have flown . Mr. Augustus Fowler , of Danvers , thinks , from his ob- servation of the habits of these birds when feeding their young , that the ...
... female does not build her nest before the first broods of the Robin and the Song - Sparrow have flown . Mr. Augustus Fowler , of Danvers , thinks , from his ob- servation of the habits of these birds when feeding their young , that the ...
Page 21
... female ; and while , in her undulating flight , she describes a circle preparatory to alighting , they will stand almost erect , move their heads to the right and left , and burst simultaneously into song . " While engaged in these ...
... female ; and while , in her undulating flight , she describes a circle preparatory to alighting , they will stand almost erect , move their heads to the right and left , and burst simultaneously into song . " While engaged in these ...
Page 24
... female . These are supposed to be old birds , and the loss of color is attrib- uted to age . I am doubtful of this , for it can hardly be supposed that any bird can escape the gunner long enough to become gray with age . The only nests ...
... female . These are supposed to be old birds , and the loss of color is attrib- uted to age . I am doubtful of this , for it can hardly be supposed that any bird can escape the gunner long enough to become gray with age . The only nests ...
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