Identifier: popularhandbooko1905nutt (find matches)
Title: A popular handbook of the birds of the United States and Canada
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Nuttall, Thomas, 1786-1859 Chamberlain, Montague, 1844-1924
Subjects: Birds Birds
Publisher: Boston : Little, Brown
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library

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1 • SnoTv Bird . 2. Son^ SpsLrrow. 3. Phoebe. 4. A-merican Goldfinch 5 . Vesper Sparrow^. 6 . Towhee. tOWHEE. 3^1 their nest, which is fixed on the ground in a dry and elevatedsituation and sunk beneath the surface among the fallen leaves,sometimes under the shelter of a small bush, thicket, or brier.According to the convenience of the site, it is formed of differ-ent materials, sometimes, according to Wilson, being made ofleaves, strips of grape-vine bark, hned with fine stalks of drygrass, and occasionally in part hidden with hay or herbage.Most of the nests in this vicinity are made in solitary dry pinewoods without any other protection than some small bush oraccidental fallen leaves; and the external materials, rathersubstantial, are usually slightly agglutinated strips of red-cedarbark, or withered grass with a neat lining of the same andfallen pine leaves; the lining sometimes made wholly of thelatter. The nest is also at times elevated from the ground bya layer of coarse leaf

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