. Our own birds; a familiar natural history of the birds of the United States. Birds. 62 INSESSORES. possessed of no song, its only note being a low mo- notonous lisp, scarcely audible at a distance of fifty paces. Yet to it is given a plumage of the most exquisitely soft and silky tex- ture, which lays so close and smooth, that the webbings of each feather are scarcely distinguish- able. The head is surmounted by an ornamental crest, ca- pable of being raised or depressed at the will of the bird. The general color of the plumage is a beau- tiful fawn, lightest upon the lower parts; a band of
. Our own birds; a familiar natural history of the birds of the United States. Birds. 62 INSESSORES. possessed of no song, its only note being a low mo- notonous lisp, scarcely audible at a distance of fifty paces. Yet to it is given a plumage of the most exquisitely soft and silky tex- ture, which lays so close and smooth, that the webbings of each feather are scarcely distinguish- able. The head is surmounted by an ornamental crest, ca- pable of being raised or depressed at the will of the bird. The general color of the plumage is a beau- tiful fawn, lightest upon the lower parts; a band of velvety black mar- gined above and below with white, passes from the forehead over the eye toward the hinder part of the head. The tail feathers are all broadly tipped with bright yellow; the shafts of each, together with those of the secondary quills in the wings, being extended in a short appendage very much resembling a small piece of red sealing-wax. Those upon the tail are seldom found perfect, as they are soon â worn ofiF among the thick foliage of the cedars. The Cedar-birds are very abundant in spring and. Upper jig.âRed-eyed Vireo. LowtT Jig.âCedar-bird,. 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 Baily, William L; Cope, E. D. (Edward Drinker), 1840-1897. Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott & Co.
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