. Citizen bird. Scenes from bird-life in plain english for beginners. 120 CITIZEN BIRD by a black line; but young birds and females have only the yellow and black stripes, without any red. Under parts soiled white, without any marks. A Citizen of the United States, and a Tree Trapper. THE WHITE-BREASTED NUTHATCH Yank! yank!' says the White- breasted Nuthatch, as he runs up tree-trunks and comes down again head foremost, quite as a matter of course. " At first, or from a dis- tance, you may mistake liim for his cousin the Chick- adee, who wears clothes of much tlie same color and is seen i
. Citizen bird. Scenes from bird-life in plain english for beginners. 120 CITIZEN BIRD by a black line; but young birds and females have only the yellow and black stripes, without any red. Under parts soiled white, without any marks. A Citizen of the United States, and a Tree Trapper. THE WHITE-BREASTED NUTHATCH Yank! yank!' says the White- breasted Nuthatch, as he runs up tree-trunks and comes down again head foremost, quite as a matter of course. " At first, or from a dis- tance, you may mistake liim for his cousin the Chick- adee, who wears clothes of much tlie same color and is seen in the same places; or perhaps for the little Downy Wood- pecker, who also hammers his insect food out of the tree bark. " But at a second glance you will find the Nuthatch is very different. He keeps his body very close to the tree and uses his feet to creep about like a mouse or cliipmunk ; he also goes upside down, in a way that AVoodpeckers never do, clings to the under side of a branch as easily as a fly to the ceiling, and often roosts or takes a nap head downward on the side of a tree-trunk —a position that. AVhite-brkastkd Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Wright, Mabel Osgood, 1859-1934; Coues, Elliott, 1842-1899. New York, The Macmillan Company
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