. The Canadian bird book [microform] : illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds : also several hundred photographs of their nest and eggs. Oiseaux; Birds. ll'ii-Kriiy (lniil'r 7^.**. Black-tailco Onatcatchbu. PoU- optilo califomica. Kange.—Paclflc coast of •outbern California and uorthern Lower C. °!ornla. TlilK liird la very Blmllar to th» last but ban still It>ii8 whit« OD tbe outer tall (eatbera. Uko th« laiil, the aeHtH u( tfais ape <i«M UMually lack tbe exterior covt^rlDB of llcbenH, being made of vegetable tlbrea and plant down, firmly quilted tog
. The Canadian bird book [microform] : illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds : also several hundred photographs of their nest and eggs. Oiseaux; Birds. ll'ii-Kriiy (lniil'r 7^.**. Black-tailco Onatcatchbu. PoU- optilo califomica. Kange.—Paclflc coast of •outbern California and uorthern Lower C. °!ornla. TlilK liird la very Blmllar to th» last but ban still It>ii8 whit« OD tbe outer tall (eatbera. Uko th« laiil, the aeHtH u( tfais ape <i«M UMually lack tbe exterior covt^rlDB of llcbenH, being made of vegetable tlbrea and plant down, firmly quilted together and saddled on borliontal limbs or placed In forks of trees at any"'"*'"'' *•""'' heigbt from the ground. Their eggs are grayish white, specked with bright reddish browo. Bise .66 X .44. Data.—Escondldo. May 17. l»o;i. 6 eggs. Nest on a large limb of a syca- more, 30 feet above ground; made of weed fibres, lined with hair and fine THRUSHES, SOLITAIRES. BLUEBIRDS. ETC. Family TURDIDAE '!H. Tuwndknh'n StiLlTAiKR. MgailrtUi tun'turndi. Kuuge.—Western United States, breeding from Arlsona. New Mexico and .touthern California north to British Columbia. This unique species is of a unllorm brownish gray color, with a white eye ring, narrow bar on wing, and outer tall feathers, and with the baspH of the primaries ruKty colored. It is u ground inliabitInK bird, feeding upon insects and berries in shrubbery and thickets. Their song is said to b« liquid, melodious and often long continued, equalling that of any other bird. They nest on the ground in hollows under banks or crevices about roots of trees or fallen stumps, making a large, loosely constructed pile of weeds and Oraylsh trash, hollowed and lined with rootlets. The three or four eggs, wliich are laid in June, are Rrayish white, spotted with pale brown, chiefly or most abundantly about the large end. Slie .86 x .70. 'i. Wood Tiihckii. Hi/lovirhla muitel
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