. The birds of Washington; a complete, scientific and popular account of the 372 species of birds found in the state . Taken in Douglas County. Photo by (!. Leon Dawson. NEST OF YELLOW-HEADED BLACKBIRD IN TULES. 62 THE YELLOW-HEADED BLACKBIRD. This bird is es-sentially a plains-loving species, andits favorite hauntswith us are thereedy borders ofthe treeless lakes,and the uplandsloughs of easternWashington. It ishighly gregarious,especially in thefall and earlyspring, but con-fesses to about thesame degree ofdomesticity as theRed-wing, in latespring and earlysummer. The nests arestoutly-woven
. The birds of Washington; a complete, scientific and popular account of the 372 species of birds found in the state . Taken in Douglas County. Photo by (!. Leon Dawson. NEST OF YELLOW-HEADED BLACKBIRD IN TULES. 62 THE YELLOW-HEADED BLACKBIRD. This bird is es-sentially a plains-loving species, andits favorite hauntswith us are thereedy borders ofthe treeless lakes,and the uplandsloughs of easternWashington. It ishighly gregarious,especially in thefall and earlyspring, but con-fesses to about thesame degree ofdomesticity as theRed-wing, in latespring and earlysummer. The nests arestoutly-woven bas-kets of reeds andgrasses, light anddry and hand-some. No mud orother matrix ma-terial is used inconstruction, andthe interior is al-w ays carefullylined with finedry , grass. The illimitable bulrushes are the favorite cover, but rank herbage of any sortis used if only it be near or over water. The most humble situationssuffice; and the nest is often placed within a foot of the water, or its equiv-alent of black THE WESTERN MEADOWLARK. 63 No. 22. WESTERN MEADOWLARK. A. O. U. No. Sturnella neglecta Audubon. Synonyms.—Field Lark. Old-field Lark. Medlark. Medlar (poeti-cal). Mudlark (corruption). Description.—Adult male: General color of upperparts brownish blackmodified by much tawny and buffy-gray edgings of the feathers which throw theblack into stripes and bars with suggestion of herring-bone pattern; the tawnyheaviest on secondaries and upper tail-feathers where taking the form of partialbands, a median crown stripe and posterior portion of superciliary sordid whiteor buffy; anterior portion of superciliary, cheeks, chin, upper throat, breast(broadly) and middle belly rich lemon yellow (inclining to orange in olderspecimens) ; a large black crescent on upper breast; sides and flanks black-streaked and spotted with pale brown on a butty or whitish ground. Billvariegated, tawny, black and white. Female: Like male but smaller and palerwith some substitutions
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