. Birds of the Rockies . -e-bie ! Their voices arestronger and more mellifluent than the eastern phoebes,but the manner of delivery is not so spiightly and glad-some. Indeed, if I mistake not, there is a pensive strainin the lay of the western bird. A few 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 lar
. Birds of the Rockies . -e-bie ! Their voices arestronger and more mellifluent than the eastern phoebes,but the manner of delivery is not so spiightly and glad-some. Indeed, if I mistake not, there is a pensive strainin the lay of the western bird. A few 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 theredwinfjs than the grackles. Brewers blackbirdshover overhead as you come into the neighborhood ,rof their nests or young, and the males utter theircaveats in short scjueals or screeches and thefemales in harsh chacks, The nests are set in low bushes andeven on the ground, while those ofthe gi-ackles are built . #, in trees and some-times in cavities. To. M
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