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Title: Bird homes : the nests, eggs and breeding habits of the land birds breeding in the eastern United States; with hints on the rearing and photographing of young birds
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Dugmore, Arthur Radclyffe, 1870-1955
Subjects: Birds Birds
Publisher: New York : Doubleday, Page
Contributing Library: ASC - York University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: York University - University of Toronto Libraries

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y their eggs about May ist near New York,laying two or three sets during the season, which lasts with themuntil late July. The nests may be found in the open fields, inthickets, and sometimes in scrubby clearings ; they are, as a rule,placed on the ground, or in a tussock of either green or deadgrass. In some places, however, they are most often to be foundin low bushes. While on the nests these birds are usually averseto human visitors ; they glide off quietly through the grass, flyingup when at some distance to a bush or tall weed, where they giveutterance to their anxious little note of reproach. Their song,though small in volume, is decidedly sweet in tone ; it may beheard most often in the early hours of the morning, almost beforedawn, or late in the afternoon and evening. 567. Snowbird; Junco: Junco hyemalis (Linn.) Eggs greenish or bluish white with fine spots and some-times blotches of reddish brown and lilac, chiefly in a wreathround the larger end. See Page 61, Chapter II.48
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SONG SPARROWS NEST Open Nests on the Ground 581. Song Sparrow: Melospiza fasciata (Gmel.) Adult—Upper parts rich brown streaked with black, the headhaving a light gray line in the centre, either side of the crownbeing brown ; throat and breast light gray, with brownmarks which usually form an irregular blotch on the breast.Length—6.30. Breeding Range—Throughout the Eastern States. East of theAlleghanies, it breeds from South Carolina north to the Brit-ish provinces. The nest varies greatly both as to the materials used in itsconstruction and to where it is placed ; sometimes it is a bulkystructure of coarse grass, weeds, leaves, and bark, lined with hair,being as much as two and a half inches deep inside, and thenagain it may be a flimsy, shallow affair made of grass and linedwith fine grass ; it is placed on the ground, in open fields or inwoody places, or it is sometimes built in bushes as high as fivefeet from the ground. The eggs vary greatly, both as to colourand size, rang

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