. Birds & nature. Birds; Natural history. THE AMERICAN RED MERICAN RED BIRDS are among our most common cage birds, and are very gen- erally known in Europe, numbers of them having been carried over both to France and England. Their notes are varied and musical; many of them resembling the high notes of a fife, and are nearly as loud. They are in song from March to September, beginning at the first appearance of dawn and repeating successively twenty or thirty times, and with little intermission, a favorite strain. The sprightly figure and gaudy plumage of the Red Bird, his vivacity,
. Birds & nature. Birds; Natural history. THE AMERICAN RED MERICAN RED BIRDS are among our most common cage birds, and are very gen- erally known in Europe, numbers of them having been carried over both to France and England. Their notes are varied and musical; many of them resembling the high notes of a fife, and are nearly as loud. They are in song from March to September, beginning at the first appearance of dawn and repeating successively twenty or thirty times, and with little intermission, a favorite strain. The sprightly figure and gaudy plumage of the Red Bird, his vivacity, strength of voice, and actual variety of note, and the little expense with which he is kept, will ahvays make him. a favorite. This species is more niimerous to the east of the great range of the Alle- ghanies, but is found in Pennsylvania and Ohio, and is numerous in the lower parts of the Southern States. In January and February they have been found along the roadsides and fences, hovering together in half dozens, associating with snow birds, and var- ious kinds of sparrows. In the north- ern states they are migratory, and in the southern part of Pennsylvania they reside during the whole year, frequent- ing the borders of rivulets, in sheltered hollows, covered with holly, laurel, and other evergreens. They love also to reside in the vicinity of fields of Indian corn, a grain that constitutes their chief and favorite food. The seeds of apples, cherries, and other fruit are also eaten by them, and they are accused of destroying bees. Early in May the Red Bird begins to prepare his nest, which is very often fixed in a holly,cedar or laurel bush. A pair of Red Birds in Ohio returned for a number of years to build their nest in a honeysuckle vine under a portico. They were never disturbed and never failed to rear a brood of young. The nest was constructed of small twigs, dry weeds, slips of vine bark, and lined with stalks of fine grass. Four eggs of brownish olive were laid, an
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