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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s. Our species, the Dovekie or Sea Dove, is an off-shore birdseen usually about lighthouses and flying in the wake ofvessels. It is a rather small-sized, dusky bird, white below,with a clumsy, awkwardly-shaped body, and long wings. Family Urinatoridse : Loons. Page 276. 2 Species. Stout divers with long bodies, legs set very far back, bob-tailed, long twisting necks, and plumage which is more orless spotted above and plain below. We see them only inthe migrations, as they breed in the far north. 63 SYNOPSIS OF BIRD FAMILIES. Family Pygopodes: Grebes. Page 277.2 Species. Very dexterous diving birds of lakes and rivers, as wellas of salt water, variously crested in the breeding-season;their bodies are held upright by the posterior position of thelegs; they are practically tailless, and, though smaller, beara close resemblance to the Loons. 64 BIRD BIOGRAPHIES. PERCHING SONG-BIRDS.PERCHING SONGLESS BIRDS.BIRDS OF PREY.PIGEONS, QUAILS, GROUSE.SHORE AND MARSH BIRDS.SWIMMING BIRDS. PLATE 6.
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1. AMERICAN ROBIN. Length, 10 inches. 2. WOOD THRUSH. Length, 7.50-8 inches. PERCHING SONG-BIRDS. ORDER PASSERES: PERCHING BIRDS. SUB-ORDER OSCINES: SINGING BIRDS. FAMILY TUKDID^: THRUSHES. Wood Thrush: Turdus mustelinus. Plate 6. Fig. 2. Length: 7.50-8 inches. Male and Female: Above tawny, deepest on head, tail olivaceous. Sidesof throat light buff, middle of throat, breast, and belly white;sprinkled on sides with heart-shaped or triangular dark-brownspots. Whitish eye ring, bill dark brown, feet flesh-coloured. Song: A melody in which some notes have the effect of a stringedaccompaniment. The syllables are uttered deliberately, aboutfour seconds apart— Uoli—a-e-o-li, uoli—uoli—uol—aeolee-le6! Season: Early May to October. Breeds: Northward from Virginia, Kentucky, and Kansas. Nest: Of small twigs with a mud lining, sometimes saddled upon theboughs of evergreens not far from the trunk, or in small treesand bushes. Eggs: Four usually, similar in colour to the Robins, but sma

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