Identifier: cu31924000070809 (find matches)
Title: Bird studies for home and school; sixty common birds, their habits and haunts
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: De Groat, Herman C
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: Buffalo, N. Y., Herman C. De Groat
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Though very plain in dress, its gentle,trustful ways make us like it. Very often the nest is built in theshrubbery or vines about the farmhouse and the crumbs fromthe table may become Chippys food. Kind treatment will sowin its confidence that it will sometimes eat from the hand. The song is a high, shrill, chippy, chippy, chippy quitemonotonous to hear. This is among the-first birdnotes of themorning and one of the last of the evening. Indeed, it maysometimes be heard in the middle of the night when the birdseems to be trying to cheer itself with its own simple song. The nests of this species vary widely in structure. JohnBurroughs says of them: The Chipping Sparrow contentsitself with a half dozen stalks of dry grass and a few long hairsfrom a cows tail, loosely arranged on the branch of an appletree. This description is quite true of many of its nests, yetsome are bulky masses of grass and rootlets, while others areentirely composed of hair. In every nest there is a good lining 94
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CHIPPING SPAKK^.J^^^ iRO, CHICAGO of hair, because of which fact, Chippy is often called the Hair-bird. This Sparrow like all others is fond of seeds, and in theautumn the parent-birds with their young go to the fields to findtheir food. Here they feast on the waste grains and theabundant seeds of many wild plants. As. you approach them,they rise before you in flocks and flit away to the nearest treesand bushes. The bright bay cap so noticeable in summer hasnow been replaced by one well-streaked with white for winteruse. In late October the heavy frosts warn them to depart fora warmer home. BIRD NOTES 95 YELLOW-BELLIED WOODPECKER, ORSAPSUCKER Male—Upper parts and wings black and white; top ofhead and throat bright red; breast black; under parts tingedwith lemon-yellow; sides black and white. Female—Same asmale except the throat which is white. Length, eight and one-half inches. The nest is built in a high cavity of a decayed tree in anorchard or a woods. The entrance is circular a

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