. Birds of the Rockies . had not vouchsafed a is the tune they whistle ? Why, to be sure, it is, Phe-be-e ! phe-be-e ! phe-e-e-bie ! Their voices arestronger and more mellifluent than the eastern phcebes,but the manner of delivery is not so sprightly and glad-some. Indeed, if I mistake not, there is a pensive strainin the lay of the western bird. A feAv cowbirds, red-winged blackbirds, and spottedsandpipers were seen in the park, but they are too famil-iar to merit more than casual mention. However, letus return to Brewers blackbirds. Closely as theyresemble the bronzed grackles of t
. Birds of the Rockies . had not vouchsafed a is the tune they whistle ? Why, to be sure, it is, Phe-be-e ! phe-be-e ! phe-e-e-bie ! Their voices arestronger and more mellifluent than the eastern phcebes,but the manner of delivery is not so sprightly and glad-some. Indeed, if I mistake not, there is a pensive strainin the lay of the western bird. A feAv cowbirds, red-winged blackbirds, and spottedsandpipers were seen in the park, but they are too famil-iar to merit more than casual mention. However, letus return to Brewers blackbirds. Closely as theyresemble the bronzed grackles of the East, there are somemarked differences between the eastern and westernbirds ; the westerners are not so large, and their man-ners and nesting habits are more like those of theredwings than the grackles. Brewers blackbirdshover overhead as you come into the neighborhoodof their nests or young, and the males utter theircaveats in short squeals or screeches and thefemales in harsh chacks. The nests are set in bushes and.
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