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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e Gulfof Mexico. He is disposed to be rather (piiet for several daysafter his arrival, and, beyond a few low notes addressedto his companions, has little to say; but if you whistleto him even a poor imitation of his song, nearly everybird in the company will ho;) up from the tangle ofbranches and, perching ou the outer tvrigs, look for thefriends who called. Perhaps some may essay a tremulousres))onse, l)ut for a week or more they Avill make few at-tempts to sing. Later, you will hear the sweet, plaintivenotes that give to this bird the name Peabody-bird. The AVhite-throats call-notes are a low tseej> and avery characteristic sbarp chtnl\ whicli has been welllikened by Mr. Bicknell to tlio sound of a marble cut-ters chisel. At this season the White-throats roost to-gether in flocks of varying size, and if you chance to benear their home at l)edtime you will hear this cldnTi notegiven as a quarriers cborus. Finally, as the gloomdeepens, it will cease, and from the dark depths of the
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Tvifit Sciiij^lvim hi I ft ILATE XLVII. FOX SPARROW. Lengtli, 7-25 inches. Upper parts, wings, and tail bright reddish brown ; back and head mixed with a browner color ; under parts white and bright reddish brown. 189 190 FOX SPARROW. tliicket will come only the cozy, contented twitterings ofthe birds wishing one another good night. The interest with which one examines a flock of White-throated Sparrows is intensified by the prol)ability of -,„ .. , findino; their distinguished relative the White-crowned ==> ^ Sparrow, White-crown. In the Mississippi Val-ZonotricMa ley he is often common, but in the leucophrys. ^^jaiitic States he is sufliciently rareto be a character of imjDortance. The White-crown differs from the White-throat inhaving no white on the throat, which, like the breast, isgray, and in having the space before the eye black in-stead of yellow or white. In the fall his crown is brown,with a paler line through its center. Near New York city I look for the White-crownin

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