. The birds of America : from drawings made in the United States and their territories . good fortune to find the nest in a wormwoodbush, on the margin of a ravine, from whence the male was singing with itsusual energy. It contained four almost emerald green eggs, spotted withdark olive of two shades, more numerous towards the greater end, the spotslarge and roundish. The nest itself was made of small twigs and roughstalks, lined with stripes of bark and bison wool. The female flew off to alittle distance, and looked on her unwelcome and unexpected visiter, withoututtering either call or compl
. The birds of America : from drawings made in the United States and their territories . good fortune to find the nest in a wormwoodbush, on the margin of a ravine, from whence the male was singing with itsusual energy. It contained four almost emerald green eggs, spotted withdark olive of two shades, more numerous towards the greater end, the spotslarge and roundish. The nest itself was made of small twigs and roughstalks, lined with stripes of bark and bison wool. The female flew off to alittle distance, and looked on her unwelcome and unexpected visiter, withoututtering either call or complaint. Orpheus montanus, Mountain Mocking-bird, Towns., Journ. Acad. Nat. Sc. Philadel-phia, vol. vii. p. Mocking-bird, Tardus montanus, Aud. Orn. Biog., vol. iv. p. 487. Bill of moderate length, rather slender, compressed, straightish, pointed;upper mandible with the dorsal line slightly declinato-arcuate, the sidesconvex toward the end, the edges sharp, with a slight sinus close to thenarrow declinate tip; lower mandible with the angle short and narrow, the N?28.
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