. A popular handbook of the ornithology of eastern North America . 1 Snow-flake. 2. ^Nliite-Throated Sparro^v 5. Scarlet Tanager. ^. Black-rhroated Buntins ;er. 4. Indigo Buntine. DICKCISSEL. 299 rarely display any hostility to the birds around them, oramongst each other. In August they become mute, and aboutthe beginning of September depart for the South, wintering aswell as breeding in Texas and other parts of Mexico, but arenot seen in the Southern States at any period of the food consists of seeds, eggs of insects, and gravel, and inthe early part of summer they subsist much u
. A popular handbook of the ornithology of eastern North America . 1 Snow-flake. 2. ^Nliite-Throated Sparro^v 5. Scarlet Tanager. ^. Black-rhroated Buntins ;er. 4. Indigo Buntine. DICKCISSEL. 299 rarely display any hostility to the birds around them, oramongst each other. In August they become mute, and aboutthe beginning of September depart for the South, wintering aswell as breeding in Texas and other parts of Mexico, but arenot seen in the Southern States at any period of the food consists of seeds, eggs of insects, and gravel, and inthe early part of summer they subsist much upon caterpillarsand small coleopterous insects; they are also among the manyusual destroyers of the ruinous cankerworm. This species is now restricted chiefly to the valley of the Mis-sissippi, though it occurs sparingly in southern New England, butis merely accidental farther to the northward. The only examplesthat have been met with in Canada were the few that Mr. WilliamE. Saunders found breeding at Point Pelee in southern Ontario. Mr. William Brewster, writi
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