. Key to North American birds. Containing a concise account of every species of living and fossil bird at present known from the continent north of the Mexican and United States boundary, inclusive of Greenland and lower California, with which are incorporated General ornithology: an outline of the structure and classification of birds; and Field ornithology, a manual of collecting, preparing, and preserving birds. Birds; Birds; 1887. PABIDjE â PARINJE: TITMICE. 263 3. Family PARID^aE : Titmice, or Chickadees. -^ Ours ure all suiall (undpr 7 inches long) birds, at (incc distinguished ^ ^ â by
. Key to North American birds. Containing a concise account of every species of living and fossil bird at present known from the continent north of the Mexican and United States boundary, inclusive of Greenland and lower California, with which are incorporated General ornithology: an outline of the structure and classification of birds; and Field ornithology, a manual of collecting, preparing, and preserving birds. Birds; Birds; 1887. PABIDjE â PARINJE: TITMICE. 263 3. Family PARID^aE : Titmice, or Chickadees. -^ Ours ure all suiall (undpr 7 inches long) birds, at (incc distinguished ^ ^ â by having ten primaries, the 1st ^ much shorter than the 2d; wings barely or not longer than the tail; tail-feathers not stiff nor acuminate; tarsi scuteUate, longer than the mid- dle toe; anterior toes much soldered at base; nostrils concealed by dense tufts, and bill compressed, stout, straight, unnotched, and much shorter than the head; â characters that readily marked them off from all their allies, as wrens, creepers, etc. Really, tliey are hard to dis- tinguish, technically, fr(jm jays ; but all our jays are much over 7 inches long. They are distributed over North America, but the crested species are rather southern, and all but one of them western. Most of them are hardy birds, enduring the rigors of Fig. â European Greater Titmouse, Parus major. (From Dixon.) â \^riiiter without inconvenieuce, and, as a consequence, none of them arc properly migratory. They are musical, after a fashion of their own, chirping a quaint ditty; are active, restless, and very heedless of man's presence ; and eat everything. Some of the western species build astonishingly large and curiously shaped nests, pensUe, like a bottle or purse with a hfde in one side, as represented in fig. 140 ; others live in knot-holes, and similar snuggeries that they usually dig out for themselves. They are very prolific, laying numerous eggs, and raising more than one brood a season ; the young closely
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