. The land-birds and game-birds of New England; with descriptions of the birds, their nests and eggs, their habits and notes, with illustrations; . s either select a natural cavity or a de-serted Woodpeckers home, or with greatlabor excavate a hole for themselves in apost or a tree. They rarely select a soundtree, but much prefer a decayed one, par-ticularly a white birch, in which fromone to thirty feet above the ground, onthe side (or often on the top of a trunk,if a broken one), they make an excava-tion, from three inches to a foot deep,with a narrow entrance, if possible. Atthe bottom they
. The land-birds and game-birds of New England; with descriptions of the birds, their nests and eggs, their habits and notes, with illustrations; . s either select a natural cavity or a de-serted Woodpeckers home, or with greatlabor excavate a hole for themselves in apost or a tree. They rarely select a soundtree, but much prefer a decayed one, par-ticularly a white birch, in which fromone to thirty feet above the ground, onthe side (or often on the top of a trunk,if a broken one), they make an excava-tion, from three inches to a foot deep,with a narrow entrance, if possible. Atthe bottom they place warm and softmaterials, such as hairs, moss, feathers,and wool; and the female, usually in thelast week of May (near Boston), lays sixor sometimes more eggs — often again ^^^- ^ Chickadee, (i)laying, later in the season. The eggs average .63 X .50 of aninch ; and are white, either spotted with reddish brown or finelyfreckled with a rather paler shade, approaching flesh-color. * A permanent resident, everyrvhere ently most numerous in autumn andcommon at all seasons, but in Massa- winter. — W. and to the southward appar-. 68 LAND-BIRDS. c. The Chickadees are so abundantly distributed, or wellrepresented by closely allied species, throughout the greaterpart of North America that probably to a majority of itsinhabitants they are, on the whole, more familiar than anyother birds. They are common residents in all the NewEngland States, but in many parts of Massachusetts aremuch less common in summer than in winter, when manyhave come from the north. At the beginning of everynew year, they may be found in abundance in the neighbor-hood of Boston, more often in small flocks than may then watch them closely, for they are not shy,as they move about among the higher branches, and thelower branches, or even on the ground, where they peckat fallen cones, or at such refuse as can afford them any nour-ishment. When on the trees, their motions are characteri
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