Identifier: introductiontozo00dave Title: Introduction to zoology; a guide to the study of animals, for the use of secondary schools; Year: 1900 (1900s) Authors: Davenport, Charles Benedict, 1866-1944 Davenport, Gertrude Anna Crotty, 1866- Subjects: Zoology Publisher: New York, Macmillan company London, Macmillian and co., ltd. Contributing Library: MBLWHOI Library Digitizing Sponsor: MBLWHOI Library

View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book

Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image: FIG. 277. — Scarlet tanager (Piranya erythomelas). most part, on seeds. The commonest representatives arethe crow blackbird,1 of large size and iridescent plumage ;the Baltimore oriole, which weaves a hanging nest; theorchard oriole, with less orange than the preceding; thelarge meadow-lark, brownish above and yellow below;the red-winged blackbird ; the cow-bird, which builds nonest but lays its eggs in the nests of various small birds ; 1 Fig. 278. 294 ZOOLOGY and the bobolink, as it is called in the North, Avhose songis the merriest of all birds. In the South, whither thebobolink migrates in the winter, it is a great pest in

Text Appearing After Image: FIG. 278. — Purple grackle (Quiscalus quisculci). the rice-fields, and is known as the u rice-bird. It isslaughtered there as a game-bird. The Corvidae include the crows and their allies, all ofthem birds of large size. The crow, the raven of the Westand of Europe, and the blue jay (Fig. 279) are the com-monest North American species of this family. THE ENGLISH SPARKOW AND ITS ALLIES 295 The Alaudidae, or larks, are a family chiefly of Old Worldbirds of dull color, building a rough nest on the ground,and feeding on seeds and insects. The skylark of Europeis renowned as a songster. In this country we have one

Note About Images