Identifier: birdcraftfield00wrig (find matches)
Title: Birdcraft : a field book of two hundred song, game, and water birds
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Wright, Mabel Osgood, 1859-1934 Fuertes, Louis Agassiz, 1874-1927
Subjects: Birds -- United States
Publisher: New York : Macmillan Co.
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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laiming the last Jacque roses and the blossoms that con-tinue to wreathe the honeysuckle, only leaving them whenthe twilight chill stiffens their feathered mechanism. When the mild gold stars flower out, As the summer gloaming goes,A dim shape quivers about Some sweet rich heart of a rose. ******* Then you, by thoughts of it stirred, Still dreamily question them:* Is it a gem, half bird, Or is it a bird, half gem ? — Edgar Fawcett. ORDER PICI: WOODPECKERS, ETC, FAMILY PICIDiE: WOODPECKERS.Hairy Woodpecker: Dry abates villosus* Length: 9-10 inches. Male and Female / Above black and white, white stripe on middle ofback, red stripe on head. Wings spotted and striped withblack and white, four outer tail feathers white. Under partsgrayish white. Bill blunt, stout, and straight, nearly as long ashead. Female lacks red spot on head. Note: A short, tapping sound. Season: Resident; shifting about in light woods. Breeds: Through range. Nest: In holes in trees at moderate height. 196 PLATE 47.
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YELLOW-BELLIED SAPSUCKER. Length, 8.25-8.75 inches. SONGLESS BIRDS. Woodpeckers Eggs: 6, clear white, but, according to Samuels, owing to theirtransparency, they have a pink tint before they are blown. Bange: Middle portion of the eastern United States from the Atlan*tic coast to the Great Plains. The Hairy Woodpecker is a common bird in woodedregions, especially where partly decayed trees have beenleft standing. Its creeping motion when scanning treetrunks for insects resembles that of the Black-and-whiteWarbler. Though it is abundant, it is shy in the breeding-season and keeps to secluded woodlands, but in the fall andwinter comes freely to orchards and about houses. It hasan affection for particular trees and often uses the sametree, if not perhaps the same hole, for several successiveseasons. Eight years ago I noticed this species in May in Samp-Mortar woods, a wild, rocky place, covered with laurel andabounding in the rarer ferns. From the crest of MortarKock I could look into th

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