Identifier: birdneighborsint00blacha (find matches)
Title: Bird neighbors : an introductory acquaintance with one hundred and fifty birds commonly found in the gardens, meadows, and woods about our homes
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Blanchan, Neltje, 1865-1918
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: New York : Doubleday & McClure
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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ost warblers go over the Canada border to nest, but thereare many records of the nests of this species in the Alleghaniesas far south as Georgia, in the Catskills, in Connecticut, northern 95 Dusky, Gray, and Slate-colored Minnesota and Michigan. Laurel thickets and moist undergrowthof woods in the United States, and more commonly pine woodsin Canada, are the favorite nesting haunts. A sharp lip, ^ip,like some midsummer insects noise, is the birds call-note, but itslove-song, ^ee, (ee, (ee, or twee, twea, twea-e-e, as one authoritywrites it, is only rarely heard in the migrations. It is a languid,drawling little strain, with an upward slide that is easily drownedin the full bird chorus of May. 96 BLUE AND BLUISH BIRDS BluebirdIndigo BuntingBelted KingfisherBlue JayBlue GrosbeakBarn SwallowCliff SwallowMourning DoveBlue-gray Gnatcatcher Look also among Slate-colored Birds in preceding group, particularly among theWarblers there, or in the group of Birds conspicuously Yellow and Orange.
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BLUE AND BLUISH BIRDS The Bluebird (Sialia sialis) Thrush family Called also: BLUE ROBIN Length—7 inches. About an inch longer than the English sparrow. Male—Upper parts, wings, and tail bright blue, with rusty washin autumn. Throat, breast, and sides cinnamon-red. Under-neath white. Female—Has duller blue feathers, washed with gray, and a palerbreast than male. Range—North America, from Nova Scotia and Manitoba to Gulfof Mexico. Southward in winter from Middle States to Ber-muda and West Indies. Migrations—March. November. Summer resident. A few some-times remain throughout the winter. With the first soft, plaintive warble of the bluebirds early inMarch, the sugar camps, waiting for their signal, take on a bust-ling activity; the farmer looks to his plough; orders are hurriedoff to the seedsmen; a fever to be out of doors seizes one: springis here. Snowstorms may yet whiten fields and gardens, highwinds may howl about the trees and chimneys, but the little blueheralds persi

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