. A first book upon the birds of Oregon & Washington : a pocket guide and pupil's assistant in a study of the more common land birds and a few of the shore and water birds of these states . ters drive them to the open country of west-ern Oregon and Washington, here to thrive uponabundant food which they find in maple treeseeds, etc. The huge size of the bill indicatesthe use which these birds make of them in crack-ing pine cones. Though nesting so far from the habitation ofman, they are wondrously tame, as they appearin flocks in our City Parks, and upon our friendly already, it is ea
. A first book upon the birds of Oregon & Washington : a pocket guide and pupil's assistant in a study of the more common land birds and a few of the shore and water birds of these states . ters drive them to the open country of west-ern Oregon and Washington, here to thrive uponabundant food which they find in maple treeseeds, etc. The huge size of the bill indicatesthe use which these birds make of them in crack-ing pine cones. Though nesting so far from the habitation ofman, they are wondrously tame, as they appearin flocks in our City Parks, and upon our friendly already, it is easy to win further theirconfidence, and induce them to eat out of thehand. A lady of Oregon City, in the winter of1898-99, succeeded in bringing numbers of thesebeautiful birds to sit upon her arms, hands andlap. The writer has two pictures of this win-some woman with the Grosbeaks thus confidinglyresting upon her person. One of these picturesis given in these pages. In the winter of1900-01 some of the same birds returnedafter two years absence, — the identificationbeing established by certain unmistakable marks,like the blindness of one in one eye, and themisshapen leg of
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