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Title: Bird neighbors : an introductory acquaintance with one hundred and fifty birds commonly found in the gardens, meadows, and woods about our homes
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Blanchan, Neltje, 1865-1918
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: New York : Double Day, Page
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ddish chestnut on its under parts.Careful observation, however, shows important distinctions. Itis rather smaller and darker in color; its carriage and form arenot those of the robin, but of the finch. The female is smallerstill, and Has an olive tint in her brown back. Her eggs are in-conspicuous in color, dirty white speckled with brown, and laidin a sunken nest on the ground. Dead leaves and twigs abound,and form, as the anxious mother fondly hopes, a safe hidingplace for her brood. So careful concealment, however, bringsperil to the fledglings, for the most cautious bird-lover may, andoften does, inadvertently set his foot on the hidden nest. The chewink derives its name from the fancied resemblanceof its note to these syllables, while those naming it towheehear the sound to-whick, to-which, to-whee. Its song is rich,full, and pleasing, and given only when the bird has risen to thebranches above its low foraging ground. It frequents the border of swampy places and bushy fields. 58
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TOWHEES.Ya Life-size. Conspicuously Black and White It is generally seen in the underbrush, picking about among thedead leaves for its steady diet of earthworms and larvae of in-sects, occasionally regaling itself with a few dropping berriesand fruit. When startled, the bird rises not more than ten or twelvefeet from the earth, and utters its characteristic calls. On ac-count of this habit of flying low and grubbing among the leaves,it is sometimes called the ground robin. In the South our modestand useful little food-gatherer is often called grasel, especially inLouisiana, where it is white-eyed, and is much esteemed, alas!by epicures. Snowflake (Plectrophenax nivalis) Finch family Called also: S^O^ BUNTING; WHITEBIRD ; SNOWBIRD; SNOW LARK Length—7 to 7.5 inches. About one-fourth smaller than the robin. Male and Female—Head, neck, and beneath soiled white, with afew reddish-brown feathers on top of head, and suggesting animperfect collar. Above, grayish brown obsoletely streakedw

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