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Title: Birds and nature in natural colors : being a scientific and popular treatise on four hundred birds of the United States and Canada
Year: 1913 (1910s)
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Subjects: Birds -- North America
Publisher: Chicago : A.W. Mumford, Publisher
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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ispensable to his existence,viz.: water, tangled thickets, patches of cane, and a rank growth of semiaquaticplants. Such localities are not only difficult to find, but also uninviting fieldsto explore. *Tt is ventriloquial to such a degree that there is often great difficulty intracing it to its source. You advance confidently enough at first, when suddenlythe sound comes from behind you. Retracing your steps, the direction isagain changed. Now it is to the right, shortly after to the left; one momentin the tree-tops overhead, the next among the bushes almost at your feet. The Goldfinch By Herbert Randall Called also Wild Canary and Yellowbird. Length: 5 inches. About 1 inch smaller than the English Sparrow. Color: Winter: Male—Olive drab, shoulders and throat yellow, brownishwhite underneath. Summer: bright yellow except on crown, frontlet, wingsand tail, which are black. Wings banded in white. Tail has white on inner webs.Female—Brownish olive above, yellowish white beneath. 844
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FROM COL. CHI. ACAD. SCIENCES. 643 SWAINSONS WARBLER. (Helinaia swainsonii). Aliout Life-size. COPTRIGMT I»04, BY «. W. MUMFOHD. CMC< Hangc: Common in Norlli America from the tropics to the lur countriesand west to California. Migrations: May, October. Common summer resident, often seen niwinter as well. Does every ciiild know that the goldtinch has a si)arrowy look in the winterseason? And he should have, for he belongs to the same family. His jjlumagein the winter months is a blending of dull grays and browns, quite unlike thebrilliant yellow and jet black of his summer suit. In April as he comes fromthe thick woods, where he has wintered, he appears in breeding plumage. Thesechanges of plumage are eflfected by moults which take place in the autumn andagain in early spring. There is less change in the plumage of his mate; the olivegreen and yellow of her ^ummer dress is replaced by the dull grays and brownsof winter. Many boys and girls call the goldfinches wild canaries. They

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