Animals-Wild-Birds
PREFACE I. BIRD FAMILIES: Their Characteristics and the Representatives of Each Family included in "Bird Neighbors" II. HABITATS OF BIRDS III. SEASONS OF BIRDS IV. BIRDS GROUPED ACCORDING TO SIZE V. DESCRIPTIONS OF BIRDS GROUPED ACCORDING TO COLOR Birds Conspicuously Black Bir...
The jet necklace worn on this bird's breast is its best mark of identification. Its form is particularly slender and graceful, as might be expected in a bird so active, one to w...
10. Part 10Presently a brown bird scuds through the fern. It is a thrush, you guess in a minute, from its slender, graceful body. At first you notice no speckles on its breast, but as it c...
14. Part 14The earliest of the family to appear in the spring, the tree swallow comes skimming over the freshly ploughed fields with a wide sweep of the wings, in what appears to be a perf...
11. Part 11Length -- 7.5 to 8 inches. About one-fifth smaller than the robin. Male -- Upper parts dull brown, streaked with lighter on edges and tinged with pink or vinaceous; darkest on b...
7. Part 7With more artless inquisitiveness than fear, this lively little acrobat stops his hammering or hatcheting at your approach, and stretching himself out from the tree until it wou...
4. Part 4This newcomer to our shores is by no means so black as he has been painted. Like many other European immigrants he landed at or near Castle Garden, New York City, and his descen...
12. Part 12One listens in vain for a song; only a lisping "Twee-twee-ze," or "a dreary whisper," as Minot calls their low-toned communications with each other, reaches our ears from their...
6. Part 6The fact that gives the great-crested flycatcher a unique interest among all North American birds is that it invariably lines its nest with snake-skins if one can be had. Scienc...
15. Part 15Early in May you may have the good fortune to see this little bird of the woods strutting in and out of the garden shrubbery with a certain mock dignity, like a child wearing it...
5. Part 5Perhaps none of our birds have so fitted into song and story as the bobolink. Unlike a good child, who should "be seen and not heard," he is heard more frequently than seen. Ver...
13. Part 13In the lowlands of Nova Scotia and, in fact, of all the maritime provinces, this sparrow is the one that is perhaps most commonly seen. Every fence-rail has one perched upon it,...
8. Part 8Length -- 7 inches. About an inch longer than the English sparrow. Male -- Upper parts, wings, and tail bright blue, with rusty wash in autumn. Throat, breast, and sides cinnamo...
9. Part 9What the dove finds to adore so ardently in the "shiftless housewife," as Mrs. Wright calls his lady-love, must pass the comprehension of the phoebe, that constructs such an exq...
17. Part 17Length -- 7.5 inches. A trifle over an inch longer than the English sparrow. Male and Female -- Uniform olive-green above. Throat, breast, and under side of wings bright, clear...
3. Part 3Humming-bird. The Redpolls. The Kinglets. Goldfinch. The Wrens. Pine Siskin. All the Warblers not Savanna Sparrow. mentioned elsewhere. Grasshopper Sparrow. Redstart. Sharp-tail...
1. Part 1PREFACE I. BIRD FAMILIES: Their Characteristics and the Representatives of Each Family included in "Bird Neighbors" II. HABITATS OF BIRDS III. SEASONS OF BIRDS IV. BIRDS GROUPED...
18. Part 18High in the tree-tops he perches, all unsuspected by the visitor passing through the woods below, until a burst of rich, sweet melody directs the opera-glasses suddenly upward....
2. Part 2A large group of birds, for the most part smaller than the English sparrow; all, except the ground warblers, of beautiful plumage, in which yellow, olive, slate-blue, black, and...