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Title: Birdcraft : a field book of two hundred song, game, and water birds
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Wright, Mabel Osgood, 1859-1934 Fuertes, Louis Agassiz, 1874-1927
Subjects: Birds -- United States
Publisher: New York : Macmillan Co.
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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aggerated precisionthat he seems like a messenger bearing important news.But it is only another of the Sparrow tribe, wearing thethick bill of the Buntings. He has probably been inthe vicinity a week or two but has kept aloof. He bearsthe local name of Ground Eobin, because he nests upon theground and has partially reddish under parts. Although common summer residents they are so shy thatthey are rarely seen after the breeding-season. If you ap-proach the nest, the male will run through the bushes in anopposite direction, uttering his sharp teweek, towhee (anote which suggested the name Towhee) and in his anxietyexposes himself fully to view. Late in the afternoon hemounts a tree, at some distance from his nest, and rings outhis rather defiant song. He is a very restless bird, prying about continually forseeds and insects, upon which he feeds equally, and inautumn he also eats such berries as he can glean. Afterthe moulting he only gives his call note and, being affected 160 PLATE 32.
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CARDINAL. Length, 8-9 inches. SONG-BIRDS. Cardinal by cold, leaves before hard frosts. A pair or two alwaysnest in the garden under a tangle of wild grape-vines. Cardinal: Cardinalis cardinalis. Cardinal Grosbeak, Virginia Nightingale. Plate 32. Length .• 8-9 inches. Male: Magnificent red, conspicuously crested; black throat and band around beak. Wings at some seasons washed with gray. Bill light red ; feet brown.Female: Brownish yellow ; crest, wings, and tail reddish.Song: A full, rich whistle, — Cheo-cheo-chehoo-cheo ! Female also sings.Season: A notable bird of the Southern States, straggling as far north as Massachusetts.Breeds: Through its range.Nest: Bulky and loosely made of bark, leaves, and grass placed in a bush.Hggs: Pale gray, marked with brown, varying from red to chocolate.Bange: Eastern United States, north to New Jersey and the Ohio Valley (casually farther), west to the Plains. As a cage bird the Cardinal is familiar to nearly everyone; although in confinement he

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