. American ornithology, or, The natural history of the birds of the United States [microform]. Birds; Oiseaux. 00 bird, also, as a degenerate and not a dJHtinct species from their own, yet they must allow that the change has been very groat, very uniform, and universal, all ovei North America, where I have never heard that the European species has been found ; or even if it were, this would only show more clearly the specific difference of the two, by proving that climate or food coulu never have produced these differences in either, when both retain them, though confinee other ha
. American ornithology, or, The natural history of the birds of the United States [microform]. Birds; Oiseaux. 00 bird, also, as a degenerate and not a dJHtinct species from their own, yet they must allow that the change has been very groat, very uniform, and universal, all ovei North America, where I have never heard that the European species has been found ; or even if it were, this would only show more clearly the specific difference of the two, by proving that climate or food coulu never have produced these differences in either, when both retain them, though confinee other hand, tlie American species inhabits the whole extensive range between Mexico and Canada, and perhaps much farther both northerly and southerly, building and rearing their young in all the intermediate regions, often in our gardens and orchards, within a few yards of our houses. In some parts of the country they are called Crown-birds; in others Cherry-birds, from their fondness for that fruit. They also feed on ripe perrlmmons, small winter grapes, bird-cherries, and a great variety of other fruits and berries. The action of the stomach on these seeds and berries docs not seem to injure their vegetative powers; but rather to promote them, by imbedding them in a calcareous case, and they are thus transported to and planted in various and distant parts by these little birds. In other respects, however, their usefulness to the farmer may be questioned ; and in the general chorus of the feathered songsters they can scarcely be said to take a part. We must therefore rank them far below many more homely and minute warblers, their neighbors, whom Providence seems to have formed, both as allies to protect the propertv of the husbandm.,n from devouring insects, and as musicians to cheer him, while engaged in the labors of the field, with their innocent and delightful Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for re
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