A Year with the BirdsEducational Publishing Company, 1889 - 317 pages |
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... Green Warbler Grosbeak , Rose - breasted Ground - Robin · Gull Habits of Birds , Changes in Hair - Bird Hairy Woodpecker Hemp - Bird Hermit - Thrush Heron Heron , Blue Hibernation of Swallows House - Sparrow House - Wren Humming - Bird ...
... Green Warbler Grosbeak , Rose - breasted Ground - Robin · Gull Habits of Birds , Changes in Hair - Bird Hairy Woodpecker Hemp - Bird Hermit - Thrush Heron Heron , Blue Hibernation of Swallows House - Sparrow House - Wren Humming - Bird ...
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... 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 prolongs his notes until the last brood has flown from the nest . The notes of the ...
... 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 prolongs his notes until the last brood has flown from the nest . The notes of the ...
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... green with dark spots of irregular size . THE PEABODY - BIRD . In the northern parts of New England only are the inhabitants familiar with the habits of the Peabody - Bird , or White - throated Sparrow . I have seen it , however , in ...
... green with dark spots of irregular size . THE PEABODY - BIRD . In the northern parts of New England only are the inhabitants familiar with the habits of the Peabody - Bird , or White - throated Sparrow . I have seen it , however , in ...
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... green nocturnal tree - hopper , of the ripened harvest , the fall of the leaf , and of all the joyous festivals and melancholy reminiscences of autumn . The Bluebird builds his nest in hollow trees and posts , and may be encouraged to ...
... green nocturnal tree - hopper , of the ripened harvest , the fall of the leaf , and of all the joyous festivals and melancholy reminiscences of autumn . The Bluebird builds his nest in hollow trees and posts , and may be encouraged to ...
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... Green Mountain range . In the autumn he migrates from the north and may be occasionally seen in company with our other win- ter birds . In our own latitude , if the cold season drives him farther south , we meet him again early in the ...
... Green Mountain range . In the autumn he migrates from the north and may be occasionally seen in company with our other win- ter birds . In our own latitude , if the cold season drives him farther south , we meet him again early in the ...
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