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Title: The birds of Washington : a complete, scientific and popular account of the 372 species of birds found in the state
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Dawson, William Leon, 1873-1928 Bowles, John Hooper Brooks, Allan, 1869-1946
Subjects: Birds -- Washington (State)
Publisher: Seattle : Occidental Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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ilt, bulky but rather shallow structure, chiefly ofcedar bark with a few slender fir twigs interwoven; lined with stems of mossflowers: placed at moderate heights in young fir trees well out on limb or settledao-ainst trunk. Eggs: 4, white, wreathed and speckled with brownish and lilac.Av. size, .61 X .51 (15.5 X 12.9). Season: first week in June; one brood. General Range.—\\estern North America breeding from the mountains ofsouthern California north to Alaska and east to Idaho; during migrations east-ward to Rocky Mountains and southward to Guatemala, Lower California, etc. Range in Washington.—Not uncommon spring and fall migrant on bothsides of the Cascade Mountains, summer resident in coniferous timber, probablythruout the State; partially resident in winter on Puget Sound. Migrations.—Spring: Seattle April 20, 1907; Ahtanum (Yakima Co.)May 4, 1906, Tune 5, 1899; Chelan May 25, 1905. Fall: August. JVinter records:Seattle Dec. 31. 1905; Tacoma Dec. 4, 13, 15. 21 and 29, 1906.
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TOWNSEND WARBLERS, MALE AND FEMALE. 192 THE TOVVNSEND WARBLER. Authorities.—Syliia towiisciidi (Nuttall), Townsend, Journ. Ac. Nat.Sci. Phila. VII. pi. II. 18^7, iqi (forests of the Columbia River). C&S. Rh.Ra.D-. B. E. Specimens.—U. of W. Prov. C. E. WHAT a niuniing that was at the old parsonage in the Alitanuni \-alley.when the shade trees of the five acre enclosine were lit up by the presence of adozen of these fairies! Waste acres of sage lay around, or fields of alfalfaand growing wheat, hardly more inviting, but the eye of the leader, winginglanguidly from the S(juth, at early dawn had spied a patch of woods)- green,and had ordered a halt for the day in our comfortable-looking box-elders andinsect-harboring apple trees. To be sure it was absurdly late for migrants,June 5th, but thev appeared more like an eniljassage of foreign grandees, whodeignetl to make requisition upon our hospitality, than mere birds with threatsof family cares ahead. So while they sought breakfasts

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