. Life histories of North American birds with special reference to their breeding habits and eggs [microform]. Birds; Birds; Oiseaux; Oiseaux. 994 LIFIO IlISTORIKS OF NOUTri AMKUICAN IJIUIJS. II pair â¢xu'upyiii},'' ii trcijili-Iikc ciivity in a lar f(M't from tlie {ground, tiie i>irds enterinf; a knot iioh- in the tree apparently not over o or (! inches in dinm- eter. The tree was very strai<;lit and without lind)s up to tlu* nest, and this wiiH out of reach. The iiirds were very noisy, hut shy. On April .'{0, 1X77, he found anotlier pair about 4 miles farther up the river, l)reedin- in
. Life histories of North American birds with special reference to their breeding habits and eggs [microform]. Birds; Birds; Oiseaux; Oiseaux. 994 LIFIO IlISTORIKS OF NOUTri AMKUICAN IJIUIJS. II pair â¢xu'upyiii},'' ii trcijili-Iikc ciivity in a lar f(M't from tlie {ground, tiie i>irds enterinf; a knot iioh- in the tree apparently not over o or (! inches in dinm- eter. The tree was very strai<;lit and without lind)s up to tlu* nest, and this wiiH out of reach. The iiirds were very noisy, hut shy. On April .'{0, 1X77, he found anotlier pair about 4 miles farther up the river, l)reedin- in :i Itroken hollow liml) of a '. ('oh)nel (Joss further states: "The males, so far as noticed, sit upon the e<;s in the fore part of the day, and tlie females durinj;' the latter part; each, while oH' duty, occasionally feedin;if the other, Itut puttin<i' in a ood share of tiie time us sentinels, perched upon a favorite (h-ad lind) near the nest, ready to }>ive the alarm in case of a])proacliin}'' (hui|^or. At such times thev scold rapidly and manifest <j;reat anxiety and fear, circliuff overlu-ad, occa- sionally alijilitiny, but takinj;' <;'ood care to kee|) out of reach. Their feai' of man is not without cause, for our hunters never an opportunit}" to shoot at them, knowin;^ how destructive they are to the waterfowl found in the sloujihs aloU"' \\w river ;' In Clelan-ne County, Arkansas, it nests in the .sandstone bluffs alon}; the liiftle Red Kiver. Mr. H. T. Gault noticed them in such locations there in tiie siiriiifi' of ISHS, and },\\: (). Widmann informed him that they also nested (piite abundantly in the rocky bluffs and ledj^es alony the Mississippi River, a few miles south of St. Louis, Missimri. In Montana, Dr. James ('. Aferiill, V'. S. Army, says tliey are (piito com- mon aloiijf the Missouri and Yellowstone Rivers, near cliffs or cut banks, where their nests were jilaced, .sometimes in a cavity in some rock higii
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