Identifier: birdlifeguidetos00chapman (find matches)
Title: Bird-life; a guide to the study of our common birds
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Chapman, Frank M. (Frank Michler), 1864-1945 Seton, Ernest Thompson, 1860-1946
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: New York : D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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Plate XXXII. rnfSfS^thS?f>C PHOEBE. Length, 700 inches. Back dusky olive ; crown blackish ; under parts whitetinged with yellow ; outer margin of outer tail-feathers whitish ; bill black. 155 156 LEAST FLYCATCHER. fall ; but the Pli(jebe is an exception to this rule, Notonly does he winter north of the frost line, but he comesto us as early as March 20 and remains until October. The Phtebe owes his name to his song oi jjeivit-phcebe,pewU-2>h<ehe, a humble lay uttered between vigorouswags of the tail. This tail-wagging is a characteristicmotion, and also accompanies the Phoebes call-note,pee, pee, which it utters at intervals. The Least Flycatcher shares the Phcebes preference for the vicinity of houses and is most often found nesting in our shade or fruit trees. The nest. Least Flycatcher, ^^^^^.j.^ ^^^^ Phcjehes, is composed of plant-down, fibers, and rootlets, and isplaced in the crotch of a tree. The eggs resendjle thePhoebes in being white. It is difficult to describe our

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