Identifier: birdsnatureinnat05chic (find matches)
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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. A familiar resident in the mountains of the west and not uncommon in NewEngland, this large Flycatcher is known to us only as a rare migrant passing toand from its home in the Laurentian highlands. It is not a sociable bird, butmigrates in solitary fashion, and roosts high in some scantily clad or dead tree,wherever night may chance to overtake it. At such times it expresses its distrustof the bird-man, craning his neck from below, by occasional alarm notes of singu-lar resonance and penetrating quality, tezv-tew, tew-tezv, tezv, teiv, tetv. Besidesthis he has a loud call, swee-chetv, which is one of the characteristic notes of thedense evergreen forests in which the bird spends its summer. Three Cheers, heseems to say—as a gold-miner in the Cascade Mountains of Washington once putit. And, truly, for one who has been delving all day in the bowels of the silentearth, the greeting which this bird shouts down from the topmost twig of somegiant fir is most welcome and enspiriting. 876
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484 iil.l\ K-SIDED FLVCATCHKKAI>out Life-size. COPYRIGHT 1901. BY 4. w. MUUFORD, CHICAGO Barrows Golden-Eye (^cianiiitia ishuuUca) Range: Breeds from south central Alaska and northwestern Mackenzie tosouthern ()rcgf)n and soutlicrn Colorado, and fr(;ni northern Ungava to centralQuel)ec; winters from southeastern Alaska, central Montana, the Great I^kes,and (.iulf of St. Lawrence south to central (alifornia, southern Colorado, Nebras-ka, and Xcw England. The resemhlance which Ijarrcjws golden-eye bears to the common whistleris extraorilinarily close. The males, as a glance at the illustration will show, areeasily enough distinguished when close by, but to tell the females and young apartwith absolute certainty is impossible. It comes to us as a migrant in the late falland .sojourns along our northern borders, where it is often shot and sent to marketwith the more numerous common whistler. Snow OoOSe iChcn hyperboreus hyperboreiis) Range: lireeds from the mouth of the Mackenzie east

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