Identifier: birdcraftfield00wrig (find matches)
Title: Birdcraft : a field book of two hundred song, game, and water birds
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Wright, Mabel Osgood, 1859-1934 Fuertes, Louis Agassiz, 1874-1927
Subjects: Birds -- United States
Publisher: New York : Macmillan Co.
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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moulted young, they are a motleylot, mainly olive-green, but with little tufts of scarlet, yellow,and bright green, appearing at random, as if they were exam-ples of feather patchwork. It is easy to see the wisdomthat clothes the female and young of this flaming Tanagerin sober colours. If a brooding female wore a scarlet cover-ing, it would surely betray the nest to all enemies; and ifthe young were likewise conspicuous, they would be gobbledby Hawks before they understood that Hawks are hardlyfriendly. The Tanager, though of a brilliant scarlet, lacks theluminous quality that reveals the Baltimore Oriole andBlackburnian Warbler, when partly concealed in dark greenfoliage; you will be most likely to find it in a grove ofoaks, hickories, or swamp-maples, where there is an under-growth of ferns, — not briars, — near by a stream or flag-edged pond. It is a fruit and berry eater, as well as theconsumer of beetles, and other large winged insects, togetherwith many larvae. 132 PLATE 26
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1. PINE GROSBEAK,Length, 9 inches. 2. WHITE-THROATED SPARROW.Length, 6.50-7 inches. SONG-BIBDS. Pine Grosbeak FAMILY FRINGILLID JE: FINCHES, SPARROWS, GROS-BEAKS, ETC. Pine Grosbeak: JPinicola enucleator, Plate 26. Fig. 1. Length: 9.10 inches. Male: Heavy bill, giving it almost the appearance of a Parrot. Abovegeneral colour strawberry-red, with some gray fleckings, deep-est on head and rump. Wings and tail brown ; some feathersedged with lighter brown and some with white. Below palerred, turning to grayish green on belly. Bill and feet blackish. Female: Ash-brown, with yellowish bronze wash on rump, head, andbreast. Song .• A subdued, rattling warble broken by whistling notes. Season: A winter visitor whose appearance is as irregular as thelength of its stay. Breeds : Far north in evergreen woods ; also casually in Maine, NewHampshire, and Vermont, but mainly north of the UnitedStates. Nest: Saddled on a branch or in a crotch. Twigs, roots, and fibregbelow, with a soft upper sectio

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