. Birds and nature in natural colors : being a scientific and popular treatise on four hundred birds of the United States and Canada . mes alighting on the ground, atother times on fences, bushes or trees. Mr. Cooper, speaking of the bird as he found it near San Francisco, says thatthey begin to appear in October, when they are usually timid, but toward springcome more familiarly around houses and utter their shrill, low notes, whichseem much more distant than the bird itself really is. If pursued they hide, andsit unmovable among the foliage. The bird is also known by several other names, suc
. Birds and nature in natural colors : being a scientific and popular treatise on four hundred birds of the United States and Canada . mes alighting on the ground, atother times on fences, bushes or trees. Mr. Cooper, speaking of the bird as he found it near San Francisco, says thatthey begin to appear in October, when they are usually timid, but toward springcome more familiarly around houses and utter their shrill, low notes, whichseem much more distant than the bird itself really is. If pursued they hide, andsit unmovable among the foliage. The bird is also known by several other names, such as the Spotted, Golden,Painted or Columbia Robin or Thrush, and sometimes it is called the Thrush-likeMockingbird. A marked characteristic of the male is the black crescent on thebreast. Mr. Davie describes the nest as found by Dr. Minor in Alaska: Its base andperiphery are composed of an elaborate basket-work of slender twigs. Withinthese is an inner nest consisting of an interweaving of fine dry grasses ana longgray lichen. The eggs are said to be a light greenish-blue, slightly sprinkledwith spots of a dark umber-brown. 866. 490 VARIED THRUSH Hesperocichla naevia.) About li Life-size COPVniMMT 1f02, tT A. w MUWFOnC CMICAGG The White-Breasted Nuthatch By Harry Edward MilKr Call ami note like scjiiic one lau^^liing: . Like some jester with his chaffing ] Echoes with court jesters style ; IVom orchard tree or woodland aisle; Or with hilarious vein doth greet The stroller through the village street. To hring again as hring they must The court jester whose bones are dust; The castle and all the castle throng * That to the clouded past l)elong. i The door is opened and lifted the latch By this old jester, the gray nuthatch. Who does on tree-trunk bob and tilt, ; Asking the dreamer if he wilt To walk through Fancys guarded door To those lost ages gone before; To live again in stout castle keep With people who long ago went to sleep; To hear again in the masters court j The song o
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