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Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Banta, Nathaniel Moore, 1867- Schneider, Albert, 1863- Higley, William Kerr, 1860-1908 Abbott, Gerard Alan
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: Chicago, American Audobon association
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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f much the samenature as those in which it passes the summer, the formerin heavy growths of scrub palmetto. The call note of the white-eyed towhee sounds much likethe syllables jo-ree, with the accentuation on the last sylla-ble. Regarding its song, Mr. J. C. Maynrad says that itdoes not sing in winter, but by the first of March the malesmay be seen on the highest boughs of the small live oaks,pouring forth their song, which is lower and sweeter thanthat of the red-eye. This outburst of song is the prelude tothe breeding season, and soon the birds are busily engagedin constructing their nests. Mr. Oliver Davie says that the white-eyed towhee hasbeen found breeding as far north as South Carolina. Itsnest consists of coarse weeds, pine needles, and grass, and islined with finer grasses. It seems to nest both in pine trees,at heights from three to fifteen feet above the ground, andin the dense clumps of saw-palmettos. It has also beenItated that the nest is sometimes built on the ground.
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563 ARCTIC TOWHEE. (Pipilo maculatus arcticus). * i Life-size. tOHPi%H1 MOS, n A. W. HUHFOMO, «M)CAdO- FINCHES, SPARROWS, ETC 343 THE ARCTIC TOWHEE* The Aictic, or Northern, Towhee is a bird of highaltitudes and latitudes. Its breeding range is somewhatrestricted, including the plains of the Platte, upper Mis-souri, Yellowstone and Saskatchewan rivers and the regionswestward to the eastern slope of the Rocky Mountains. Inthe winter it passes southward, finally reaching the state ofTexas. Throughout its range it frequents streams andshores that are bordered with bushy underbrush. In somelocalities, as in the valley of the Great Slave Lake, thisspecies is very abundant. The Arctic towhee appears in the vicinity of IdahoSprings about the middle of May and in the course of aweek or two becomes rather common, though never veryabundant. It becomes rare above 8,500 feet, and above9,000 feet disappears altogether, being most numerous from7,500 feet down to the plains. In habits and appearanc

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