Handbook of Birds of Eastern North AmericaD. Appleton, 1895 - 421 pagina's |
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Ad.-Upper ashy Bank Swallow Barred Owl barred with black belly white bill bill black birds blackish bluish breeds brownish gray buff buffy buffy white Cambridge color common T. V. Common Tern cream-buff crown DUCK Eggs feathers feet flocks Florida fuscous Gallinules grasses grayish brown greenish ground Gulf GULL habits HAIRY WOODPECKER Hawk head and neck Im.-Similar inner larger end less Linn Long Island mandible Manitoba margined marked Marsh Wren marshes migrates nape Nest North America northern northward numbers ochraceous ochraceous-buff olive-green outer tail-feathers pale plumage Range.-Breeds Range.-Eastern North America Range.-North America rare T. V. resembles Ridgw rufous rufous-brown rump SANDPIPER scapulars Sept sides Sing Sing sometimes song southern southward Sparrow species speckled spotted streaked with black tarsus Tern tinged tipped with white trees upper tail-coverts Vireo Warbler washed Washington Whip-poor-will whitish wing-coverts wings and tail winter WOODPECKER woods yellow
Populaire passages
Pagina 398 - Chapman says (Handbook of Birds of Eastern North America) 'it is most at home in secluded woodland and thickety retreats. ... Its notes are not remarkable for variety or volume, but in purity and sweetness of tone and exquisite modulation they are unequalled.
Pagina 3 - The Geographical Origin and Distribution of North American Birds considered in Relation to Faunal Areas of North America, The Auk (New York city), x, 1893, pp.
Pagina 9 - One may go a blackberrying and make some rare discovery; or, while driving his cow to pasture, hear a new song, or make a new observation. Secrets lurk on all sides. There is news in every bush.
Pagina 148 - Northern parts of northern hemisphere, breeding in the arctic regions and migrating south in winter: in the United States, south to the Middle States, Ohio Valley, and Cape St. Lucas ; chiefly maritime
Pagina 211 - Of 320 stomachs examined, 1 contained a game bird; 53, other birds; 89, mice; 12, other mammals; 12, reptiles or batrachians; 215, insects; 29, spiders; and 29 were empty. . . . The Sparrow Hawk is almost exclusively insectivorous, except when insect food is difficult to obtain