Identifier: americanornithol11901reed (find matches)
Title: American ornithology for the home and school
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Reed, Chester A. (Chester Albert), 1876-1912
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: Worcester, Mass. : C.K. Reed
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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n the temperate latitudesthe breeding season is the time when the trees are in blossom.. Again atthis season of courtship among the birds, nature has given the males amore brilliant costume. Thus the bobolink changes his winter garmentof yellowish brown for one of gorgeous straw color and black; and the red-winged blackbird casts off his tawny suit for one of glossy jet, with epau-lettes of scarlet. After the young are reared and the flowers have faded,they dispense with their brilliant colors and assume the plain hues of thefemale. And as with the birds so with the insects. The toad is coloredlike the soil of the garden, while the colors of the common frog that livesamong the green rushes and aquatic mosses are green. The tree frog isof a mottled gray, like the outer bark of old trees. Grasshoppers aregenerally greenish; but there is a species found among the gray lichens onour rocky hills, which is the color of the surface of these rocks. Frank H. Sweet. 240 A MERICA N ORNITHO LOGY.
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