. Bird-life: a guide to the study of our common birds . rasses. It is usually placed in trees, twenty tothirty feet from the ground, but the bird may sometimesnest in bushes i:»r even in a Woodpeckers deserted three to six eggs are generally pale bluish green,strikingly spotted, blotched, or sciawled with brown andblack. But one brood is raised, and when the youngleave the nest they roam about the country in smallbands, which later join together, forming the enormousflocks of these birds we see in the fall. The Bobolinks extended journeys and quite differ-ent costumes have given him
. Bird-life: a guide to the study of our common birds . rasses. It is usually placed in trees, twenty tothirty feet from the ground, but the bird may sometimesnest in bushes i:»r even in a Woodpeckers deserted three to six eggs are generally pale bluish green,strikingly spotted, blotched, or sciawled with brown andblack. But one brood is raised, and when the youngleave the nest they roam about the country in smallbands, which later join together, forming the enormousflocks of these birds we see in the fall. The Bobolinks extended journeys and quite differ-ent costumes have given him many alixses. Throughouthis breeding range, from New Jersey to Nova Scotia,„ , ,. , and westward to Utah, he is known BoboUnk, . n -n t t i T [>njiehon,/.c while uestmg as- the Bobolmk. in oryziimrvs. July and August he loses his black, Plate xxxviii. ^^g^ ^jj^i ^j^.^g Avedding dress, and gains a new suit of feathers resembling in color thoseworn by his mate, though somewhat yellower. This isthe lieedbird dress, and in it he journeys nearly four.
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