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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tening on breast.Song: Sweet but weak,— Tshe—tshe—tshe—tshay !Season: Middle of May to third week in September.Breeds: Through its United States range.Nest: In bushes, bulky and rude, of leaves and grass.Eggs: Bluish or pure white, with brown spots,Bange: Eastern United States, south, in winter, to Veragua. Beautiful plumage and a very small voice is the sum ofthe Indigo Buntings attractions. It comes about the middleof May with the Scarlet Tanager, and if you should chanceto find these birds in company, as sometimes happens, rest-ing on the same rough fence rail, while a Goldfinch swingsnear them among the wayside grasses, you will have seenthe primary colours as illustrated in bird life. When the Bunting feeds upon the ground, as is his usualhabit, his food consisting mainly of the seed of small grassesand herbs, his plumage is brought out wonderfully by theplay of light upon it, varying from deep blue to a tint ofverde antique, unlike the Bluebirds sky colour. 164 PLATE 34.
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INDIGO BUNTING. 1. Male. 2. Female. Length, 5.50 inches. SONG-BIRDS. Bobolink The most likely place to find him is in old, bush-grownpastures, and along the lane hedges; like all the bright-hued birds he is beset by enemies both of earth and sky,but his Sparrow instinct, which has a love for mother-earth, bids him build near the ground. The dangers of thenesting-time fall mostly to his share, for his dull brownmate is easily overlooked as an insignificant Sparrow. Na-ture almost always gives a plain coat to the wives of thesegayly dressed cavaliers, for her primal thought is the safetyof the home and its young life. FAMILY ICTERID^: BLACKBIRDS, ORIOLES, ETC.Bobolink: Dollchonyx oryzivorus* After moult BeedrUrd. Plate 35.Length: 6.50-7 inches.Male: Black head, chin, tail, wings, and under parts. Buff patch on back of neck ; also buff edges to some tail and wing feathers. Rump and upper wing coverts white. Bill brown. In autumn similar to female.Female: Below yellowish brown. Above stri

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