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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
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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everget, outside of a museum, to study the birds characteristics ofplumage. Both the sharp-tailed and the seaside finches are crepus-cular, says Dr. Abbott, in The Birds About Us. They runup and down the reeds and on the waters edge long after mostbirds have gone to sleep. Song Sparrow (Melospi^a fasciataj Finch family Length—6 to 6.5 inches. About the same size as the Englishsparrow. Male and Female—Brown head, with three longitudinal gray bands.Brown stripe on sides of throat. Brownish-gray back,streaked with rufous. Underneath gray, shading to white,heavily streaked with darkest brown. A blaci< spot onbreast. Wings without bars. Tail plain grayish brown. Range—North America, from Fur Countries to the Gulf States.Winters from southern Illinois and Massachusetts to the Gulf. Migrations—March. November. A few birds remain at thenorth all the year. Here is a veritable bird neighbor, if ever there was one ; athome in our gardens and hedges, not often farther away than the 158
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