. Birds and nature in natural colors : being a scientific and popular treatise on four hundred birds of the United States and Canada . while the most dreadful woes. The female is a close sitter, and portraits(in nido) are not difficult to obtain. Nesting sites are various, but the bird shows a decided preference forthose which are naturally defended by thorns Nearly every full sized Crategus(thorn apple) has at one time harbored a nest. Hedges of osage-orange arewell patronized almost exclusively so in the prairie states further west—and the honey-locust tree is not forgotten. Next after these
. Birds and nature in natural colors : being a scientific and popular treatise on four hundred birds of the United States and Canada . while the most dreadful woes. The female is a close sitter, and portraits(in nido) are not difficult to obtain. Nesting sites are various, but the bird shows a decided preference forthose which are naturally defended by thorns Nearly every full sized Crategus(thorn apple) has at one time harbored a nest. Hedges of osage-orange arewell patronized almost exclusively so in the prairie states further west—and the honey-locust tree is not forgotten. Next after these come wildplum thickets, grape-vine tangles, brush heaps, fence corners, and last of all,the ground. From Birds of Ohio by Permission. Birds in Winter Fields By Edward B. Clark A crow was calling from the Skokie,* while from the oak at the door-step a bluejay, in a voice more grating than usual, answered the salutationwith the epithet thief, twice repeated. It may seem strange that the sum-mons of two harsh bird-voices should be potent enough to draw one to theoutdoor world from the front of a pile of genially crackling birch-
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